G.K. Chesterton

The metaphysical moment

By Martin E. Marty — January 12, 2017
Many moments ago—two millennia or so—all this was called “Gnosticism,” which never left our cultures, and returns in newly marketable forms.

Why the culture wars rage on

By Trevin Wax — May 24, 2016
(RNS) Transgender rights are the latest flare-up, pitting those who view freedom as flourishing within the body we’ve received, and those who view freedom as overcoming and redefining the body.

Saint G.K. Chesterton? Some delight, others worry about effort to canonize writer

By Trevor Grundy — September 27, 2013
(RNS) Canonizing the 300-pound cigar-chomping writer would delight his legion of fans but disappoint Jews who say Chesterton was anti-Semitic.

Is God the missing character in ‘Downton Abbey’?

By David Gibson — February 14, 2013
(RNS) The third season of the megahit television series “Downton Abbey” wraps up on Sunday (Feb. 17), capping another must-see run of ruin and redemption at Lord Grantham’s stately English manor. Yet some are still left puzzling over the absence of what should be a leading player in this colorful cast: God.
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