Welcome! In the next few days, I will begin casting readings from Heretics, a book written in 1905 by Catholic apologist G.K. Chesteron, a writer who has had great influence on me, and I hope to share him with you. I hope to go through the entire book in the next month or so.

Chesterton wrote Heretics at the turn of the century in order to explain why he felt many popular attitudes of the time were unwise, and many of the attitudes are prevalent today. The book is grouped into chapters, each one about a “heretic” and his heresy. Chesterton explains what he means when he refers to a close friend, George Bernard Shaw, as a ‘heretic’:

“I am not concerned with Mr. Bernard Shaw as one of the most brilliant and one of the most honest men alive. I am concerned with him as a Heretic — that is to say, as a man whose philosophy is quite solid, quite coherent, and quite wrong. I revert to the doctrinal methods of the thirteenth century, inspired by the general hope of getting something done.”