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G.K. Chesterton on “tired democracy”
Do we think of democracy as the pinnacle — the culmination of long striving toward a fuller expression of human ideals — the summit of human progress? G.K. Chesterton, writing in 1925, points…
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Pathological — or “normal”?
In my study of growing up in a networked culture, I meet many children and teenagers who feel cast off. Some have parents with good intentions who simply work several jobs and have…
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Week in Words: Glory
I’m pausing in my swim through the archives, lifting my head out of old blog posts for a breath of air in the present. And what I’m reading is 1000 Gifts: A Dare…
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Chesterton’s advice to writers
Some passages just need to be shared. This one is from the chapter “The Romance of Orthodoxy” (in Orthodoxy). Chesterton is on his way to a larger point, but I have to stop…