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Saint Gilbert: The Question of Chesterton's Legacy w/ Brian Daigle

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GK Chesterton's Conversion to Roman Catholicism

Both Lewis and Dorothy Sayers also come with the kind of broad Christian worldview that anybody can understand and resonate with. Chesterton grew up in a pretty tepid Christian environment his dad was a lovely smart man owned a small business and home mom was a pretty normal jolly witty early 20th century mother and wife. He had a brother Cecil who was five years younger than him he had a a sister Beatrice a caller birdie who  was five years older than Chesterton but she passed away when Chesterton was eight or nine. In one of her letters she says that the only reason she didn't become a logical positivist which is a very modernist paradigm is because of G

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