It is commonly known that J.R.R. Tolkien had a role in the conversion to Christianity of the Oxford don and writer C.S. Lewis. However, there was another man who, too, had a hand in the conversion of the great Clive Staples, and his name is Gilbert Keith Chesterton. While still in the throes of atheism, Lewis made a mistake, in terms of keeping…
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Love Mary
“One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest of thy forms and faces Walk in a forest calling on one name And, most of all, how this thing may be so Who know thee not are mystified to know That one cries ‘Here she stands’ and one cries…
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Extraordinary Ordinary Rain
Last night, after a downpour, we spotted a splendid rainbow. At the same time, the entire sky was painted red, blue, and purple; and, to top things off, the pavement we were driving on sparkled, and shined, from its heavenly bath, and the houses we passed were cast in a homey yellow glow that made them appear as the peaceful…
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A Second Childhood
“When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God’s ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins and me, Because He does not take away The terror…
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One Foot in Fairyland
It is common today to view everything through the lens of rationalist thought, everything; and that which cannot be fit into this logical mode of thinking is none-the-less jammed into it because it simply must go there, and no one seems alarmed when the pieces do not fit, and contradictions cry out to be noticed. I am not denigrating rational thought.…
