Brad Shorr
In 1911, Holbrook Jackson, a British journalist and socialist, privately published a little book called Platitudes in the Making, Precepts & Advices for Gentlefolk. G.K. Chesterton, a friend of Holbrook’s, received an autographed copy, and amused himself by handwriting witty responses to each of Holbrook’s nuggets of advice. How do…
This collection of essays published in 2000 was a freebie at the 2021 Chesterton Conference. It includes several well-known essays along with many that were new to me. Unfortunately, the editor did not reference where or when the essays where originally published; regardless of the origin, each selection gives us…
In Contagious Faith, Philip K. Lawler says what I’ve been trying to say in these pages for over a year, with the glaring difference being that Lawler says it much better. He describes the colossal (and ongoing) failure of the Catholic Church hierarchy’s response to the COVID lockdowns, a turn…
Sometimes God puts what you need right in your hands, even before you know you need it. I was killing time in a Goodwill bookstore and somewhat randomly picked up a 1999 edition of The Fathers of the Church, happily still in print, by Mike Aquilina. Now, I had thought…