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 being a century old, Chesterton’s insights are just as pertinent…
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 events, this book fell into my lap: The Sadness of…
I went on a long walk this morning, and, to turn a Warren Zevon lyric upside down, it gave me a chance to contemplate eternity above the vast indifference of demons. In this very strange, anxiety-inducing and uncertain present, are there any blessings to be counted? Here are some that…
Circa 1300 B.C. In the 3:45 scene below, from The Ten Commandments, Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the Tablets of The Law. Things have gotten a little out of hand while Moses was away. A story repeated over and over. And all through the years, the elites who lead…