G.K. Chesterton on the Paradox of Righteous Anger and Holy Impatience
G.K. Chesterton never lost his outrage at true injustice, yet when a woman called him a coward for not being at the front in World War I, he...
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G.K. Chesterton on Mariolatry: Chronic and Quite Incurable
In 1926, the year his wife Frances entered the Church, G.K. Chesterton published The Queen of Seven Swords , a small book of poems about Our...
"Millions Now Alive Will Never Live": G.K. Chesterton's Warning
Some of the G.K. Chesterton in the new issue of Gilbert isn't collected anywhere else. Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski open with a 1933 e...
Why G.K. Chesterton Thought St. Gabriel More Glorious Than St. Michael
In 1929, with the world at peace, G.K. Chesterton wrote a prayer to St. Michael, the warrior archangel. For Michaelmas, Grettelyn Darkey and...
Why Fulton Sheen Called G.K. Chesterton His Greatest Influence
A seminarian once wrote Fulton Sheen asking to write a master's thesis on his work, and Sheen wrote back telling him to write on G.K. Cheste...
Chesterton is the Antidote to the Illness of our Age
Somebody once wrote a fairy tale where the quest that wins the princess was to find a single newspaper that didn't contain an article by G.K...
G.K. Chesterton's Devotion to the Mother of God
G.K. Chesterton spent his life writing about Our Lady, and the poems are still doing their work. Maria Romine, drama teacher at Chesterton A...
Chesterton's Thoughts on Mistakes in Modern Education
G.K. Chesterton gave an entire quarter of What's Wrong with the World to what he called the mistake about the child, and his verdict was blu...
G.K. Chesterton's Conversion and its Augustinian Parallels
On the feasts of Saints Monica and Augustine, Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski trace G.K. Chesterton's long road into the Catholic Church,...
G.K. Chesterton vs. Communism and Socialism
In 2016, Danish politician Ida Auken described the year 2030 as a happy place to live: no car, no house, no appliances, no privacy, and a li...
Why G.K. Chesterton Defended the French Revolution—and Why His Critics Still Misread Him
Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski take up the most neuralgic subject in G.K. Chesterton scholarship: his defense of the French Revolution....
What G.K. Chesterton Said about St. John Vianney
For the memorial of St. John Vianney, Joe Grabowski reads a rarely reprinted G.K. Chesterton essay—The Challenge of the Curé d'Ars—written a...
G.K. Chesterton on the Death of Literacy
A new Atlantic cover story argues that America is sliding into a postliterate age—but G.K. Chesterton diagnosed the same collapse in 1928, y...
The Chestertonian Writer on the Road to Canonization
On the heels of the announcement that Sigrid Undset's cause for canonization has been opened, Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski consider th...
The Idea That Makes America More Like a Church Than a Nation
This episode is a re-air. For Independence Day, Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski set conversation aside and let G.K. Chesterton speak. Thi...
Five Myths You Probably Believe About G.K. Chesterton, Demolished
Everyone thinks they know G.K. Chesterton: the beer-loving, pipe-smoking, gluttonous genius who tossed off masterpieces without breaking a s...
How Chesterton Saw Big Business and Big Government Becoming Allies Before Anyone Else Did
G.K. Chesterton published The Outline of Sanity in 1926—a blueprint for a third way between capitalism and socialism, grounded in widespread...
How One Line from G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man Sent an Artist Around the World
G.K. Chesterton wrote that there are two ways of getting home—stay there, or walk around the entire world until you arrive from the other di...
What G.K. Chesterton Might Have Said about America's Consecration to the Sacred Heart
G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1926 that "the heart of Christendom is a heart" and in this episode, Joe and Grettelyn discover that this single li...
How G.K. Chesterton Saw Through False Progress, Freud, and the Screen Age — and Why the World Is Still Catching Up
Two of G.K. Chesterton's most unexpectedly prophetic essays take center stage in this issue of Gilbert Magazine: "An Architect's Nightmare,"...