Tag: G.K. Chesterton
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Setting polemics aside for a moment
Theological debates go back to the origins of the Church. But recent years have seen a number of debates receiving high profiles in the media; these have typically involved militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. When Dawkins engaged in a recent debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury, I expected more…
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Wishing you a Not-so-Merry Christmas
A Chestertonian view of Christmas. “… there is in that image a true idea of an outpost, of a piercing through the rock and an entrance into an enemy territory. There is in this buried divinity an idea of undermining the world; of shaking the towers and palaces from below; even as Herod the great…
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Nudge and Judge
I was recently asked to compose an editorial for a journal to which I subscribe. The invitation carried the stipulation that the editorial be “opinionated” …