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Book Review – Chesterton in Black and White
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Book Review – Chesterton in Black and White

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Brad Shorr

A collection of Chesterton essays was published July of 2021: Chesterton in Black and White, Essays by G.K. Chesterton from Black and White and The Bystander, 1903-1904, edited by Geir Hasnes. These early essays, with a few exceptions, have never…

Book Review – Platitudes Undone
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Book Review – Platitudes Undone

Posted on October 19, 2021November 21, 2021 by 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…

On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G. K. Chesterton, edited by Alberto Manguel
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On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G. K. Chesterton, edited by Alberto Manguel

Posted on October 18, 2021November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

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…

Book Review: Contagious Faith, by Philip F. Lawler
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Book Review: Contagious Faith, by Philip F. Lawler

Posted on June 11, 2021November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

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…

Book Review: The Fathers of the Church, by Mike Aquilina
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Book Review: The Fathers of the Church, by Mike Aquilina

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Brad Shorr

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…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1935-1936
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1935-1936

Posted on September 18, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXVII G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1932-1934
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1932-1934

Posted on August 28, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXVI G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1929-1931
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1929-1931

Posted on August 27, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXV G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1926-1928
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1926-1928

Posted on August 26, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXIV G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1923-1925
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1923-1925

Posted on August 26, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXIII G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1920-1922
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1920-1922

Posted on August 9, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXII G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1917-1919
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1917-1919

Posted on August 8, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXI G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1914-1916
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1914-1916

Posted on August 4, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXX G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1911-1913
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1911-1913

Posted on August 3, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXIX G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1908-1910
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Chesterton Quotes – The Illustrated London News 1908-1910

Posted on August 3, 2020November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXVIII G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite…

Saint Thomas More – A Spiritual Punch in the Face
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Saint Thomas More – A Spiritual Punch in the Face

Posted on August 1, 2020August 3, 2020 by Brad Shorr

A 2020 Spiritual Survival Kit Events of the past several months had me in a foul mood, at times an almost despairing mood. Just when things seemed to be hitting rock bottom, through God’s grace, through an unlikely series of…

Trial by Ice, By Richard Parry – The Impending Shipwreck
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Trial by Ice, By Richard Parry – The Impending Shipwreck

Posted on July 2, 2020July 5, 2020 by Brad Shorr

Trial by Ice, by Richard Parry, is a fascinating and exciting account of the 1871 Polaris Expedition, an American naval mission to discover the North Pole. The story is absolutely remarkable in itself, but what makes the book so valuable…

Book Review: Through the First Antarctic Night, 1896-1899
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Book Review: Through the First Antarctic Night, 1896-1899

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Brad Shorr

Through the First Antarctic Night, 1896-1899, by Frederick A. Cook, is an account of the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition, signficant for being the first time explorers spent the winter in the Antarctic region. The author, Dr. Frederick A. Cook, was…

The Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
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The Short Stories of Philip K. Dick

Posted on February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 by Brad Shorr

It’s been years since I read The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick’s classic  science-fiction novel. I had forgotten what a great writer he was until now, having just finished reading about 120 of his short stories.  It’s…

Book Review: The Judgment of the Nations, by Christopher Dawson
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Book Review: The Judgment of the Nations, by Christopher Dawson

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Brad Shorr

The English historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1942, when the battle between Nazi Germany and Western civilization was far from decided. While Dawson’s ideas are largely a response to the catastrophic rise of totalitarianism…

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