G. K. Chesterton
The Theology of Christmas Presents
(A classic by the master essayist, on why we give Christmas presents, for those of us who still sometimes wonder what is the point...
Homesick at Home
He looked at the dandelions and crickets and realized that he was gigantic. We are too fond of reckoning by mountains, every object is infinitely...
Chesterton’s Donkey
The Donkey
BYÂ G. K. CHESTERTON
When fishes flew and forests walked
   And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
   Then surely I was born.
With monstrous...
Chesterton and Light in the New Dark Ages
Certain critics tell us that we wish to return to the Dark Ages about which they themselves are entirely in the dark. They are...
The Glory of the Past, the Narrowness of a Future Without It
The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past....
On Evil Euphemisms
Somebody has sent me a book on Companionate Marriage; so called because the people involved are not married and will very rapidly cease to...
A Daily Quotation
To face what joys and troubles we might, we will provide some quotations for inspiration, and here is one from the mighty pen of...
A Christmas Poem, by G.K. Cheserton
There fared a mother driven forth
Out of an inn to roam;
In the place where she was homeless
All men are at home.
The crazy stable close...
The Ethics of Elfland
Orthodoxy, Chapter 4: âThe Ethics of Elflandâ by G. K. Chesterton
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in...
