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Editor's Corner
The Hollow Cross
Good artists, musicians, writers, and dramatists are able to reflect reality. Often their work is so true to life that we
cannot see it. I am not sure if the artists are conscious of this,...
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Fairy tales
I deny that biology can destroy the sense of truth, which alone can even desire biology. - G. K. Chesterton, The Long Bow
"Papa, tell us some fairy tales!" all the children cried in a...
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To reject the soup
In Ireland, my ancestors were offered a devil’s bargain by the otherwise good people during the potato famine. At that time, well-intentioned but misguided folk would provide soup to starving Irishmen on the condition...
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The Greeter
“Perhaps it was rather rude of me to turn my back, but upon my blessed word, I—I’d never heard such a thing in my life!” - G. K. Chesterton, The Conversion of an Anarchist
On New...
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God be with ye
I was speaking with a colleague, Fred, who is an atheist, and he told me that he preferred to use Xmas on his Christmas cards rather than Christmas. This, he said, would not give...
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Cough Syrup
It was coming up to Christmas and I was sitting in the living room looking at the Christmas tree, deciding whether to light a cigar to celebrate the holiday. The rest of the family was...
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All twelve days
“Therefore your end is on you,
Is on you and your kings,
Not for a fire in Ely fen,
Not that your gods are nine or ten,
But because it is only Christian men Guard even heathen things.
"For...
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Puffballs
“What can go wrong?” I asked, “the book says it is safe, and it shows a picture of the thing. Listen! It says right here that there are no poisonous puffballs, and this is...
