Uncommon Sense - The Official Podcast of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Frances Chesterton Rosary League invites you to pray along with Nancy Brown, Dale Ahlquist and the many others around the world, and join your intentions with ours as we pray together. chesterton.org

A rebroadcast with Carl Olson Ignition: A Podcast of the New Evangelization The Man, The Myth, The Legend: G.K. Chesterton Dr. Chris Burgwald of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota cburgwald@sfcatholic.org Carl Olson of Ignatius Press and Catholic World Report Dr. Chris talks with Carl Olson about the early twentieth century British author, writer and convert GK Chesterton, and what he means for us today. Hugh Kenner Paradox in Chesterton January 1948 Aidan Nichols G.K. Chesterton, Theologian 2009 David Fagerberg The Size of Chesterton’s Catholicism 2017 Episode 382 from December 8, 2019 http://feeds.feedburner.com/sfcgp Chesterton.org

The Frances Chesterton Rosary League invites you to pray along with Nancy Brown, Dale Ahlquist and the many others around the world, and join your intentions with ours as we pray together. chesterton.org

The Frances Chesterton Rosary League invites you to pray along with Nancy Brown, Dale Ahlquist and the many others around the world, and join your intentions with ours as we pray together. chesterton.org

Chesterton remained active right up to his death, giving speeches, talks on the BBC radio, opening libraries, garden parties and nursing homes. He was present at a fund raiser at the end of May, and died two weeks later on June 14, 1936. chesterton.org

A Celebration of G.K. Chesterton compiled by Michael Ffinch, found on englishwordplay.com/chesterton please check it out as they also have the full script on line. This overview of Chesterton's life goes over the major highlights, and is a quick and easy way to learn of Chesterton's life, but in an interesting way as a radio play with multiple voices and sound effects. It is excellent. Please enjoy. Chesterton.org

Ethics and Culture Cast from 10/17/19, Ken Hallenius interviews Dale Ahlquist on Chesterton's connection to the University of Notre Dame, the Chesterton collection at the Notre Dame London campus, the book My Name is Lazarus, the Apostle of Common Sense, and the potential for sainthood in G.K. Chesterton. chesterton.org  

This is a rebroadcast of Faith and Culture with Joseph Pearce from October 29, 2019. https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2019/10/28-the-holiness-of-chesterton-with-christopher-blum Following John Henry Newman's canonization, Christopher Blum and Joseph Pearce consider whether that other great English apologist G. K. Chesterton should be considered a saint. With commentary afterwards by Nancy Brown chesterton.org Please request your prayer cards at https://www.chesterton.org/prayer/

Podcast #124 Gilbert ages 50-60 The Years 1924-1934  Chesterton Decade by Decade Series In this decade, Chesterton started GK’s Weekly, the Everlasting Man is published. The Distributist League is born, Frances converts, they hire their last secretary, Dorothy Collins. They travel to Poland and Rome and America/Canada, where Chesterton gives a series of classes at Notre Dame. They travel to Dublin and France. Gilbert becomes a regular on the BBC. He’s starting to spend more time sick than healthy. He writes St. Thomas Aquinas. His mother dies, he becomes a Knight. Hitler rises to power. Sign up for our 60 days with GKC email series, you can get them daily or weekly, and this will help you dive deeper into Chesterton. chesterton.org If you live near Dover New Hampshire, on November 22 and 23 there will be a new play, Gilbert’s Guide to Elfland Excursions: A Fairy Tale Stage Show, here is the description: G.K. Chesterton plays host to three fairy tales: from France, Beauty and the Beast, from Sweden, The Werewolf, a Cinderella Story and from Scotland, Little Daylight. November 22 and 23rd at the Strand Theater, 10:30 am and 6:30 PM on the 22, and 1:30 matinee on the 23rd, tickets in advance or at the door. It will be a family friendly show. Weebsite is chestertonSP.com (Chesterton Stage Productions) by our very own Christopher Oulette, whom you’ve heard on occasion on this very show. anyone interested in Chesterton’s war writing to know that there is a book called Chesterton on War and Peace which culls the war pieces from the ILN from 1905 till his death, so they’re all in one place for your reading pleasure. Unfortunatly Chesterton on War and Peace is currently out of stock on the Chesterton.org website, but my second book site I go to, AbeBooks.com, which usually has a great selection of used books, does have it for only 9 or 10 bucks right now if you’re interested. In addition, Collected Works volume 21 at the back has newspaper reports of some of Chesterton’s speeches, which is interesting reading. If you enjoy these podcasts, know that I am a volunteer, and I donate the cost of storage for these podcasts which I consider a donation to the Society. I podcast because I love doing it and enjoy creating these shows. If you’d like to show your appreciation, please consider making a donation to the Chesterton Society by going to Chesterton.org/donate Thank you

In 1914 Chesterton is stricken by a mysterious illness that puts him in a weakened state and mostly in a coma for almost five months. When he reawakens, the world is still at war, and he begins writing about the war and in support of the war effort, and in criticism of the war too. His brother Cecil goes off to war, and unfortunately dies, crushing Gilbert.   Gilbert goes on lecture tours to Ireland, Jerusalem and then America, giving a huge number of speeches. His father dies, another blow for Gilbert. He finally decides to convert, even without Frances, proving, to Father O’Connor, that he was really doing God’s will. For the first time, the BBC broadcasts a speech Gilbert makes at a restaurant. His book St. Francis of Asissi is published to great acclaim and becomes a best seller. He begins publishing his own paper, G.K.’s Weekly, and we’ll talk more about that next time as we get into the Distributist League.   There were six works—one book and five pamphlets— specifically written as propaganda for the war and they are:   The Barbarism of Berlin (free on Project Gutenberg) Prussian v. Belgian Culture (pamphlet) Letters to an Old Garibaldian (CW 5) The Crimes of England (CW 5) (book) The Martyrdom of Belgium (pamphlet) 9 pages How to Help Annexation (CW 5)   His volumes of ILN columns during the war years are in Collected Works Volume 30 which covers 1914-1916 Volume 31 covers 1917-1919 Wade Center: https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/wadecenter/ Chesterton.org uncommonsensepodcast@gmail.com