As a young man, immersed in the secular spirit of the age, I thought I needed to choose between reason or religion. One couldn’t choose both because one contradicted the other. We could have the ...

It is a mystery that could have come straight out of a G.K. Chesterton detective story. We have a suspect. We have a priest investigating that suspect. We have a mystery to solve. The suspect is none ...

Chesterton is taking a step forward toward developing a trail linking the Duneland YMCA Healthy Living Campus with the ...

This is an undated portrait of G.K. Chesterton by Edwin Swan. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an agnostic who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and became one of Catholicism's best-known defenders. (OSV ...

Chesterton clashed with many leading intellectuals of his day. He also counted them as friends. The prolific playwright, critic, essayist, and Irishman G.B. Shaw first met Chesterton in 1901. They ...

How GKC subverts the subversives. A prophet is never welcome in his own hometown. For a long time after the tumult of the Sixties, G. K. Chesterton’s writings seemed to have lost a welcome anywhere, ...

Back when they had more ideas than subservience, those who call themselves “conservatives” liked to invoke “Chesterton’s Fence,” a parable by the English philosopher G.K. Chesterton. His allegory, ...

George Bernard Shaw lived to be 94, dying 70 years ago, in 1950, and was for several decades, along with H. G. Wells, the most influential writer in the world, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature ...