ChesterCast http://chestercast.podbean.com Readings from the public domains writings of Christian Apologist GK Chesteron Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:39:14 +0000 http://podbean.com/?v=3.2 en ©Kevin Walker 2003-2009 Religion 1440 chesterton,catholic,church,jesus,heretics,orthodoxy,apologist,apologetics Readings from the public domain writings of Christian Apologist GK Chesterton. Readings from the public domain writings of Christian Apologist GK Chesteron Kevin Walker Kevin Walker trentonzero@yahoo.com No No http://chestercast.podbean.com/mf/web/z4iu8/Chesterton_GK_01.jpg ChesterCast http://chestercast.podbean.com 144 144 Orthodoxy 4 : The Ethics of Elfland http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/07/01/orthodoxy-4-the-ethics-of-elfland/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/07/01/orthodoxy-4-the-ethics-of-elfland/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:39:14 +0000 chestercast Orthodoxy http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/07/01/orthodoxy-4-the-ethics-of-elfland/ ‘When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: “Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is.” Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother’s knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.’

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/07/01/orthodoxy-4-the-ethics-of-elfland/feed/ 'When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, ... 'When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.' chesterton, orthodoxy, catholic, idealism, catholicism, christianity, pragmatism, Kevin Walker No No 49:27 Back to the Future http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/06/30/back-to-the-future/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/06/30/back-to-the-future/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:05:00 +0000 chestercast NonChesterton http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/06/30/back-to-the-future/ Work and school have been keeping me busy, but this week Chestercast is resuming, full bore. Actually, it was supposed to resume today, but the file containing the recording of the fourth chapter of Orthodoxy was corrupted, and has to be completely redone from scratch. That was a very rude surprise after spending the whole workday looking forward to working on it.

Expect the fourth chapter to be up by this weekend; hopefully earlier than that. Expect a new chapter every week after that. The fifth chapter is already recorded. It just can’t go up before the fourth, for obvious reasons.

In other news, a Belloccast will begin soon, as will a more general ‘Catholic Audio Books’ podcast to be done by my wife (we haven’t come up with a snappy title yet. If you have any ideas, be sure to give us a shout).

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/06/30/back-to-the-future/feed/ Orthodoxy 3 : The Suicide of Thought http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/02/21/orthodoxy-3-the-suicide-of-thought/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/02/21/orthodoxy-3-the-suicide-of-thought/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:29:58 +0000 chestercast Orthodoxy http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/02/21/orthodoxy-3-the-suicide-of-thought/ “This is what makes so futile the warnings of the orthodox and the boasts of the advanced about the dangerous boyhood of free thought. What we are looking at is not the boyhood of free thought: it is the old age and ultimate dissolution of free thought. It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be discovered if once we let free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves.”

(Sorry for the long delay since my last upload. I’m still here and I’m still doing this.)

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2009/02/21/orthodoxy-3-the-suicide-of-thought/feed/ "This is what makes so futile the warnings of the orthodox and the boasts of the advanced about the dangerous boyhood of free thought. What ... "This is what makes so futile the warnings of the orthodox and the boasts of the advanced about the dangerous boyhood of free thought. What we are looking at is not the boyhood of free thought: it is the old age and ultimate dissolution of free thought. It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be discovered if once we let free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves." (Sorry for the long delay since my last upload. I'm still here and I'm still doing this.) orthodoxy, chesterton, Kevin Walker No No Orthodoxy 2 : The Maniac http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/06/09/orthodoxy-2-the-maniac/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/06/09/orthodoxy-2-the-maniac/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:04:00 +0000 chestercast Orthodoxy http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/06/09/orthodoxy-2-the-maniac/ A bit of a delay, but a long chapter this time also.

“Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it. The publisher said of somebody, “That man will get on; he believes in himself.” “

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/06/09/orthodoxy-2-the-maniac/feed/ A bit of a delay, but a long chapter this time also. "Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a ... A bit of a delay, but a long chapter this time also. "Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it. The publisher said of somebody, "That man will get on; he believes in himself." " orthodoxy, chesterton, Kevin Walker No No Orthodoxy 1 : In Defense of Everything Else http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/05/03/orthodoxy-1-in-defense-of-everything-else/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/05/03/orthodoxy-1-in-defense-of-everything-else/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 06:51:49 +0000 chestercast Orthodoxy http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/05/03/orthodoxy-1-in-defense-of-everything-else/ The first chapter of Orthodoxy.

It’s finals time at school, and since I am flying back to America for a few weeks without my iMac, things will probably continue to be slow for the next few weeks, even as finals end. Sorry about that. I’ll see if I can upload one more chapter before boarding the plane on Thursday.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/05/03/orthodoxy-1-in-defense-of-everything-else/feed/ The first chapter of Orthodoxy. It's finals time at school, and since I am flying back to America for a few weeks without my iMac, ... The first chapter of Orthodoxy. It's finals time at school, and since I am flying back to America for a few weeks without my iMac, things will probably continue to be slow for the next few weeks, even as finals end. Sorry about that. I'll see if I can upload one more chapter before boarding the plane on Thursday. orthodoxy, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 20: Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-20-concluding-remarks-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-20-concluding-remarks-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:10:36 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-20-concluding-remarks-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/ “A common hesitation in our day touching the use of extreme convictions is a sort of notion that extreme convictions, specially upon cosmic matters, have been responsible in the past for a thing called bigotry. But a very small amount of direct experience will dissipate this view. In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no conviction at all. The economists of the Manchester school who disagree with Socialism take Socialism seriously. It is the young man in Bond Street, who does not know what socialism means, much less whether he agrees with it, who is quite certain that these socialist fellows are making a fuss about nothing. The man who understands the Calvinist philosophy enough to agree with it must understand the Catholic philosophy in order to disagree with it. It is the vague modern who is not at all certain what is right who is most certain that Dante was wrong. The serious opponent of the Latin Church in history, even in the act of showing that it produced great infamies, must know that it produced great saints. It is the hard-headed stockbroker, who knows no history and believes no religion, who is, nevertheless, perfectly convinced that all these priests are knaves …. Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-20-concluding-remarks-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/feed/ "A common hesitation in our day touching the use of extreme convictions is a sort of notion that extreme convictions, specially upon cosmic matters, have ... "A common hesitation in our day touching the use of extreme convictions is a sort of notion that extreme convictions, specially upon cosmic matters, have been responsible in the past for a thing called bigotry. But a very small amount of direct experience will dissipate this view. In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no conviction at all. The economists of the Manchester school who disagree with Socialism take Socialism seriously. It is the young man in Bond Street, who does not know what socialism means, much less whether he agrees with it, who is quite certain that these socialist fellows are making a fuss about nothing. The man who understands the Calvinist philosophy enough to agree with it must understand the Catholic philosophy in order to disagree with it. It is the vague modern who is not at all certain what is right who is most certain that Dante was wrong. The serious opponent of the Latin Church in history, even in the act of showing that it produced great infamies, must know that it produced great saints. It is the hard-headed stockbroker, who knows no history and believes no religion, who is, nevertheless, perfectly convinced that all these priests are knaves .... Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions." chesterton, heretics, orthodoxy, conclusion, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 19 : Slum Novelists and the Slums http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-19-slum-novelists-and-the-slums/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-19-slum-novelists-and-the-slums/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:03:03 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-19-slum-novelists-and-the-slums/ “There is nothing, for instance, particularly undemocratic about kicking your butler downstairs. It may be wrong, but it is not unfraternal. In a certain sense, the blow or kick may be considered as a confession of equality: you are meeting your butler body to body. You are almost according him the dignity of a duel…..The thing which is really undemocratic and unfraternal is to say, as so many modern humanitarians say, ‘Of course one must make allowances for those on a lower plane.’ All things considered, indeed, it may be said, without undue exaggeration, that the really undemocratic and unfraternal thing is the common practice of not kicking the butler downstairs.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/04/13/heretics-19-slum-novelists-and-the-slums/feed/ "There is nothing, for instance, particularly undemocratic about kicking your butler downstairs. It may be wrong, but it is not unfraternal. In a certain sense, ... "There is nothing, for instance, particularly undemocratic about kicking your butler downstairs. It may be wrong, but it is not unfraternal. In a certain sense, the blow or kick may be considered as a confession of equality: you are meeting your butler body to body. You are almost according him the dignity of a duel.....The thing which is really undemocratic and unfraternal is to say, as so many modern humanitarians say, 'Of course one must make allowances for those on a lower plane.' All things considered, indeed, it may be said, without undue exaggeration, that the really undemocratic and unfraternal thing is the common practice of not kicking the butler downstairs." heretics, chesterton, slums, poverty, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 18 : The Fallacy of the Young Nation http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/23/heretics-18-the-fallacy-of-the-young-nation/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/23/heretics-18-the-fallacy-of-the-young-nation/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:47:00 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/23/heretics-18-the-fallacy-of-the-young-nation/ “When we come to the last test of a nationality, the test of art and letters, the case is almost terrible. The English colonies have produced no great artists; and that fact may prove that they are still full of silent possibilities and reserve force. But America has produced great artists. And that fact most certainly proves that she is full of a fine futility and the end of all things. Whatever the American men of genius are, they are not young gods making a young world. Is the art of Whistler a brave, barbaric art, happy and headlong? Does Mr. Henry James infect us with the spirit of a schoolboy? No; the colonies have not spoken, and they are safe. Their silence may be the silence of the unborn. But out of America has come a sweet and startling cry, as unmistakeable as the cry of a dying man.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/23/heretics-18-the-fallacy-of-the-young-nation/feed/ "When we come to the last test of a nationality, the test of art and letters, the case is almost terrible. The English colonies have ... "When we come to the last test of a nationality, the test of art and letters, the case is almost terrible. The English colonies have produced no great artists; and that fact may prove that they are still full of silent possibilities and reserve force. But America has produced great artists. And that fact most certainly proves that she is full of a fine futility and the end of all things. Whatever the American men of genius are, they are not young gods making a young world. Is the art of Whistler a brave, barbaric art, happy and headlong? Does Mr. Henry James infect us with the spirit of a schoolboy? No; the colonies have not spoken, and they are safe. Their silence may be the silence of the unborn. But out of America has come a sweet and startling cry, as unmistakeable as the cry of a dying man." young nations, old empires, chesterton, heretics, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 17 : On the Wit of Whistler http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/04/heretics-17-on-the-wit-of-whistler/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/04/heretics-17-on-the-wit-of-whistler/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:03:15 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/04/heretics-17-on-the-wit-of-whistler/ “The first rate great man is equal with other men, like Shakespeare. The second rate great man is on his knees to other men, like Whitman. The third-rate great man is superior to other men, like Whistler.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/03/04/heretics-17-on-the-wit-of-whistler/feed/ "The first rate great man is equal with other men, like Shakespeare. The second rate great man is on his knees to other men, like ... "The first rate great man is equal with other men, like Shakespeare. The second rate great man is on his knees to other men, like Whitman. The third-rate great man is superior to other men, like Whistler." chesterton, heretics, whistler, satire, Kevin Walker No No Cranky Young Catholic Sample http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/28/cranky-young-catholic-sample/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/28/cranky-young-catholic-sample/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:31:07 +0000 chestercast NonChesterton http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/28/cranky-young-catholic-sample/ I’ve started doing video blogging on YouTube, if any cares to look, as ‘CrankyYoungCatholic’.

I will continue the ChesterCast, on schedule of course, and the ChesterCast will continue to be entirely readings from Chesterton, with no opinion but his aired.

However, I also have opinions. This is a sample of my opinions as the Cranky Young Catholic, the only time such a thing will ever be put into ChesterCast. From now on, as before, everything will be Chesterton’s words, and not mine.

If you enjoy this video, I would be overjoyed if you watched other videos from me as the Cranky Young Catholic on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TrentonZero . The Cranky Young Catholic talks about Catholicism, Christianity, Apologetics, and the so-called New Atheism.

This sample is about the slanderer, Christopher Hitchens, and has already stormed up quite a pleasant little hornet’s nest as his fans come out to defend him.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/28/cranky-young-catholic-sample/feed/ I've started doing video blogging on YouTube, if any cares to look, as 'CrankyYoungCatholic'. I will continue the ChesterCast, on schedule of course, and the ChesterCast ... I've started doing video blogging on YouTube, if any cares to look, as 'CrankyYoungCatholic'. I will continue the ChesterCast, on schedule of course, and the ChesterCast will continue to be entirely readings from Chesterton, with no opinion but his aired. However, I also have opinions. This is a sample of my opinions as the Cranky Young Catholic, the only time such a thing will ever be put into ChesterCast. From now on, as before, everything will be Chesterton's words, and not mine. If you enjoy this video, I would be overjoyed if you watched other videos from me as the Cranky Young Catholic on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TrentonZero . The Cranky Young Catholic talks about Catholicism, Christianity, Apologetics, and the so-called New Atheism. This sample is about the slanderer, Christopher Hitchens, and has already stormed up quite a pleasant little hornet's nest as his fans come out to defend him. catholic, cranky, chesterton, christianity, hitchens, atheism, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 16 : On Mr McCabe and a Divine Frivolity http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/26/heretics-16-on-mr-mccabe-and-a-divine-frivolity/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/26/heretics-16-on-mr-mccabe-and-a-divine-frivolity/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:01:33 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/26/heretics-16-on-mr-mccabe-and-a-divine-frivolity/ “We may put the matter in this way. The main point of modern life is not that the Alhambra ballet has its place in life. The main point, the main enormous tragedy of modern life, is that Mr. McCabe has not his place in the Alhambra ballet….We are miserable moderns and rationalists. We do not merely love ourselves more than we love duty; we actually love ourselves more than we love joy.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/26/heretics-16-on-mr-mccabe-and-a-divine-frivolity/feed/ "We may put the matter in this way. The main point of modern life is not that the Alhambra ballet has its place in life. ... "We may put the matter in this way. The main point of modern life is not that the Alhambra ballet has its place in life. The main point, the main enormous tragedy of modern life, is that Mr. McCabe has not his place in the Alhambra ballet....We are miserable moderns and rationalists. We do not merely love ourselves more than we love duty; we actually love ourselves more than we love joy." heretics chesterton mccabe, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 15 : On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/17/heretics-15-on-smart-novelists-and-the-smart-set/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/17/heretics-15-on-smart-novelists-and-the-smart-set/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:01 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/17/heretics-15-on-smart-novelists-and-the-smart-set/ “In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man, but bad literature tells us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/17/heretics-15-on-smart-novelists-and-the-smart-set/feed/ "In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of ... "In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man, but bad literature tells us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture." heretics, novelists, smart set, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 14 : On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/12/heretics-14-on-certain-modern-writers-and-the-institution-of-the-family/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/12/heretics-14-on-certain-modern-writers-and-the-institution-of-the-family/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:59:29 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/12/heretics-14-on-certain-modern-writers-and-the-institution-of-the-family/ “It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage however, n the small state, the city, or the village, which only the willfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us….There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/12/heretics-14-on-certain-modern-writers-and-the-institution-of-the-family/feed/ "It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large ... "It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage however, n the small state, the city, or the village, which only the willfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us....There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique." heretics chesterton family, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 13 : Celts and Celtophiles http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/04/heretics-13-celts-and-celtophiles/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/04/heretics-13-celts-and-celtophiles/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:43:15 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/04/heretics-13-celts-and-celtophiles/ “Of this great spiritual coherence, independent of external circumstances, or of race, or of any obvious physical thing, Ireland is the most remarkable example. Rome conquered nations, but Ireland has conquered races. The Norman has gone there and become Irish, the Spaniard has gone there and become Irish, even the bitter soldier of Cromwell has gone there and become Irish. Ireland, which did not exist even politically, has been stronger than all the races that existed scientifically…Nationality in its weakness has been stronger than ethnology in its strength. Five triumphant races have been absorbed, have been defeated by a defeated nationality.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/02/04/heretics-13-celts-and-celtophiles/feed/ "Of this great spiritual coherence, independent of external circumstances, or of race, or of any obvious physical thing, Ireland is the most remarkable example. Rome ... "Of this great spiritual coherence, independent of external circumstances, or of race, or of any obvious physical thing, Ireland is the most remarkable example. Rome conquered nations, but Ireland has conquered races. The Norman has gone there and become Irish, the Spaniard has gone there and become Irish, even the bitter soldier of Cromwell has gone there and become Irish. Ireland, which did not exist even politically, has been stronger than all the races that existed scientifically...Nationality in its weakness has been stronger than ethnology in its strength. Five triumphant races have been absorbed, have been defeated by a defeated nationality." heretics, chesterton, chelts, celtophiles, ireland, race, nationalism, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 12 : Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/28/heretics-12-paganism-and-mr-lowes-dickinson/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/28/heretics-12-paganism-and-mr-lowes-dickinson/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:55:46 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/28/heretics-12-paganism-and-mr-lowes-dickinson/ “The real difference between Paganism and Christianity is perfectly summed up in the difference between the pagan, or rational, virtues, and those three virtues of Christianity which the Church of Rome calls virtues of grace…which are in their essence as unreasonable as they can be….Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is a fact that the only kind of hope that is of any use in the battle is the hope that denies arithmetic. Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is a fact that the only kind of charity which any weak spirit wants, and which any generous spirit feels, is the charity that forgives sins that are like scarlet. Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/28/heretics-12-paganism-and-mr-lowes-dickinson/feed/ "The real difference between Paganism and Christianity is perfectly summed up in the difference between the pagan, or rational, virtues, and those three virtues of ... "The real difference between Paganism and Christianity is perfectly summed up in the difference between the pagan, or rational, virtues, and those three virtues of Christianity which the Church of Rome calls virtues of grace...which are in their essence as unreasonable as they can be....Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is a fact that the only kind of hope that is of any use in the battle is the hope that denies arithmetic. Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is a fact that the only kind of charity which any weak spirit wants, and which any generous spirit feels, is the charity that forgives sins that are like scarlet. Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove." chesterton, heretics, paganism, dickinson, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 11 : Science and the Savages http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/21/heretics-11-science-and-the-savages/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/21/heretics-11-science-and-the-savages/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:51:37 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/21/heretics-11-science-and-the-savages/ “Possibly the most pathetic of all the delusions of the modern students of primitive belief is the notion they have about the thing they call anthropomorphism. They believe that primitive men attributed phenomena to a god in human form in order to explain them. . . because by this explanation they were made more reasonable and comfortable. The final cure for all this kind of philosophy is to walk down a lane at night. Any one who does so will notice that men pictured something semi-human at the back of all things, not because such a thought was natural, but because it was supernatural; not because it made things more comprehensible, but because it made them a hundred times more incomprehensible and mysterious. For a man walking down a lane at night can see the conspicuous fact that as long as nature keeps to her own course, she has no power with us at all. As long as a tree is a tree, it is a top-heavy monster with a hundred arms, a thousand tongues, and only one leg. But so long as a tree is a tree, it does not frighten us at all. It begins to be something alien, to be something strange, only when it looks like ourselves. When a tree really looks like a man our knees knock under us. And when the whole universe looks like a man we fall on our faces.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/21/heretics-11-science-and-the-savages/feed/ "Possibly the most pathetic of all the delusions of the modern students of primitive belief is the notion they have about the thing they call ... "Possibly the most pathetic of all the delusions of the modern students of primitive belief is the notion they have about the thing they call anthropomorphism. They believe that primitive men attributed phenomena to a god in human form in order to explain them. . . because by this explanation they were made more reasonable and comfortable. The final cure for all this kind of philosophy is to walk down a lane at night. Any one who does so will notice that men pictured something semi-human at the back of all things, not because such a thought was natural, but because it was supernatural; not because it made things more comprehensible, but because it made them a hundred times more incomprehensible and mysterious. For a man walking down a lane at night can see the conspicuous fact that as long as nature keeps to her own course, she has no power with us at all. As long as a tree is a tree, it is a top-heavy monster with a hundred arms, a thousand tongues, and only one leg. But so long as a tree is a tree, it does not frighten us at all. It begins to be something alien, to be something strange, only when it looks like ourselves. When a tree really looks like a man our knees knock under us. And when the whole universe looks like a man we fall on our faces. chesterton, folk lore, Kevin Walker No No An Update http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/18/an-update/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/18/an-update/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:02:34 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/18/an-update/ I have a nice buffer going now. I have just finished recording chapter sixteen of Heretics, so I should not have any more late podcasts. This makes me about a month ahead.

I am thinking the next book will be either Orthodoxy or Saint Francis of Assisi. If you have any opinion in the matter, drop me a comment.

I’ve subscribed for a paid account on PodBean and applied to have Chestercast added to the iTunes Store’s podcast list, so I hope that gives me more listeners.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/18/an-update/feed/ Heretics 9 and 10 : The Moods of Mr George Moore and On Sandals and Simplicity http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/15/heretics-9-and-10-the-moods-of-mr-george-moore-and-on-sandals-and-simplicity/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/15/heretics-9-and-10-the-moods-of-mr-george-moore-and-on-sandals-and-simplicity/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:05:25 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/15/heretics-9-and-10-the-moods-of-mr-george-moore-and-on-sandals-and-simplicity/ The chapters were short, so they were combined into one file.

The Moods of Mr. George Moore is Chesterton’s account of George Moore, an writer who attacked Christianity.

“The more hopeless is the situation the more hopeful must be the man. Stevenson understood this, and consequently Mr. Moore cannot understand Stevenson…The weaker a thing is, the more it should be respected…Thackery understood this, and therefore Mr. Moore does not understand Thackery. Pride is a weakness in the character; it dries up chivalry and energy. The Christian tradition understands this; therefore Mr. Moore cannot understand the Christian tradition.”

And in On Sandles and Simplicity, Chesterton attacks the a backwards view of the ’simple life’ :

“This complaint against them stands, that they would make us simple in the unimportant things, but complex in the important things. They would make us simple in things that do not matter — that is, in diet, in custome, in ettiquette, in economic system. But they would make us complex in the things that do matter — in philosophy, in loyalty, in spiritual acceptance, and in spiritual rejection. It does not so much matter if a man eats a grilled tomato or a plain tomato; it does very much matter whether he eats a plain tomato with a grilled mind.”

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/15/heretics-9-and-10-the-moods-of-mr-george-moore-and-on-sandals-and-simplicity/feed/ The chapters were short, so they were combined into one file. The Moods of Mr. George Moore is Chesterton's account of George Moore, an writer ... The chapters were short, so they were combined into one file. The Moods of Mr. George Moore is Chesterton's account of George Moore, an writer who attacked Christianity. "The more hopeless is the situation the more hopeful must be the man. Stevenson understood this, and consequently Mr. Moore cannot understand Stevenson...The weaker a thing is, the more it should be respected...Thackery understood this, and therefore Mr. Moore does not understand Thackery. Pride is a weakness in the character; it dries up chivalry and energy. The Christian tradition understands this; therefore Mr. Moore cannot understand the Christian tradition." And in On Sandles and Simplicity, Chesterton attacks the a backwards view of the 'simple life' : "This complaint against them stands, that they would make us simple in the unimportant things, but complex in the important things. They would make us simple in things that do not matter -- that is, in diet, in custome, in ettiquette, in economic system. But they would make us complex in the things that do matter -- in philosophy, in loyalty, in spiritual acceptance, and in spiritual rejection. It does not so much matter if a man eats a grilled tomato or a plain tomato; it does very much matter whether he eats a plain tomato with a grilled mind." heretics, chesterton, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 8 : The Mildness of the Yellow Press http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/07/heretics-8-the-mildness-of-the-yellow-press/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/07/heretics-8-the-mildness-of-the-yellow-press/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:55:23 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/07/heretics-8-the-mildness-of-the-yellow-press/ Chapter 8 from Heretics, “The Mildness of the Yellow Press”.

Chesterton talks about the yellow press of his time, but, as always, finds his way around to other, related topics.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/07/heretics-8-the-mildness-of-the-yellow-press/feed/ Chapter 8 from Heretics, "The Mildness of the Yellow Press". Chesterton talks about the yellow press of his time, but, as always, finds his way around ... Chapter 8 from Heretics, "The Mildness of the Yellow Press". Chesterton talks about the yellow press of his time, but, as always, finds his way around to other, related topics. heretics, chesterton, catholic, yellow press, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 7 : Omar and the Sacred Vine http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/05/heretics-7-omar-and-the-sacred-vine/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/05/heretics-7-omar-and-the-sacred-vine/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:42:34 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/05/heretics-7-omar-and-the-sacred-vine/ A bit late, and a short chapter. This quote from the chapter says it all:

“Dionysius made wine, not a medicine, but a sacrament. Jesus Christ made wine, not a medicine, but a sacrament. Omar Khayyam makes wine, not a sacrament, but a medicine. He feasts, because life is not joyful; he revels, because he is not glad. ‘Drink,’ he says, ‘for you know not whence you come or why. Drink, for you know not when you go or where. Drink, because the stars are cruel and the world as idle as a humming top. Drink, because there is nothing worth trusting, and nothing worth fighting for. Drink, because all things are lapsed in a base equality and an evil peace.’ And so he stands, offering us the cup in his hand. And at the high altar of Christianity stands another figure, in whose hand is also the cup of the vine. ‘Drink,’ he says, ‘for the whole world is as red as this wine, with the love and wrath of God. Drink, for the trumpets are blowing for battle and this is the stirrup-cup. Drink, for this is my blood of the new testament that is shed for you. Drink, for I know of whence you come and why. Drink, for I know of when you go and where.’ “

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2008/01/05/heretics-7-omar-and-the-sacred-vine/feed/ A bit late, and a short chapter. This quote from the chapter says it all: "Dionysius made wine, not a medicine, but a sacrament. Jesus Christ ... A bit late, and a short chapter. This quote from the chapter says it all: "Dionysius made wine, not a medicine, but a sacrament. Jesus Christ made wine, not a medicine, but a sacrament. Omar Khayyam makes wine, not a sacrament, but a medicine. He feasts, because life is not joyful; he revels, because he is not glad. 'Drink,' he says, 'for you know not whence you come or why. Drink, for you know not when you go or where. Drink, because the stars are cruel and the world as idle as a humming top. Drink, because there is nothing worth trusting, and nothing worth fighting for. Drink, because all things are lapsed in a base equality and an evil peace.' And so he stands, offering us the cup in his hand. And at the high altar of Christianity stands another figure, in whose hand is also the cup of the vine. 'Drink,' he says, 'for the whole world is as red as this wine, with the love and wrath of God. Drink, for the trumpets are blowing for battle and this is the stirrup-cup. Drink, for this is my blood of the new testament that is shed for you. Drink, for I know of whence you come and why. Drink, for I know of when you go and where.' " omar, heretics, Kevin Walker No No 13:16 Heretics 6: Christmas and the Aesthetes http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-6-christmas-and-the-aesthetes/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-6-christmas-and-the-aesthetes/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:34:53 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-6-christmas-and-the-aesthetes/ Merry Christmas, and in honor of the glorious day, I’ve pushed ahead to do the chapter on Christmas, the Salvation Army, and the philosophy of Comte.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-6-christmas-and-the-aesthetes/feed/ Merry Christmas, and in honor of the glorious day, I've pushed ahead to do the chapter on Christmas, the Salvation Army, and the philosophy of ... Merry Christmas, and in honor of the glorious day, I've pushed ahead to do the chapter on Christmas, the Salvation Army, and the philosophy of Comte. heretics chesterton christmas, Kevin Walker No No Heretics 5 : Mr. HG Wells and the Giants (B) http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-b/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-b/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:32:46 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-b/ The conclusion to GK Chesterton’s chapter on HG Wells.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/24/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-b/feed/ The conclusion to GK Chesterton's chapter on HG Wells. The conclusion to GK Chesterton's chapter on HG Wells. hg wells, heretics, chesterton, Kevin Walker No No Please Wish Me Well! (Not Chesterton Related) http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/23/please-wish-me-well-not-chesterton-related/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/23/please-wish-me-well-not-chesterton-related/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:38:02 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/23/please-wish-me-well-not-chesterton-related/ Today, after a long wait while I lived in China and catechism, I have finally been baptized into the Catholic Church in Suwon, South Korea.

If you are interested, you can follow the link for photos:: http://www.flickr.com/gp/11179904@N06/UyUf0f

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/23/please-wish-me-well-not-chesterton-related/feed/ Heretics 5 : Mr. HG Wells and the Giants (A) http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/19/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-a/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/19/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-a/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:11:36 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/19/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-a/ Our fifth podcast from Heretics by GK Chesterton. The Heretic this week is science fiction writer HG Wells, and the heresy is the hero worship that, in the old story of Jack and the Beanstalk, has us rooting for the giants.

This was a long chapter, so it is divided into two podcasts, each about sixteen minutes in length. Please forgive the background noise. I’m going to try and buy a unidirectional microphone soon, and hopefully that will cut down on it.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/19/heretics-5-mr-hg-wells-and-the-giants-a/feed/ Our fifth podcast from Heretics by GK Chesterton. The Heretic this week is science fiction writer HG Wells, and the heresy is the hero worship ... Our fifth podcast from Heretics by GK Chesterton. The Heretic this week is science fiction writer HG Wells, and the heresy is the hero worship that, in the old story of Jack and the Beanstalk, has us rooting for the giants. This was a long chapter, so it is divided into two podcasts, each about sixteen minutes in length. Please forgive the background noise. I'm going to try and buy a unidirectional microphone soon, and hopefully that will cut down on it. hg wells, giants, chesterton, heretics, Kevin Walker No No 16:30 Back http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/18/back/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/18/back/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:46:45 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/18/back/ Sorry for that delay and thanks for your patience. Things are back and track. I recorded the fifth chapter of Heretics (HG Wells) over the last hour or so, but it’s midnight here in Korea, and cleaning up an episode tends to take between one and two hours of my time (yes, I make that many mistakes when I read), so I’m going to get some sleep. The next chapter will be uploaded sometime in the next 24 hours.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/18/back/feed/ First Delay http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/10/first-delay/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/10/first-delay/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:38:05 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/10/first-delay/ I know I said I would upload an episode today.

However, I just had a wisdom tooth extracted, and so I really don’t feel like sitting down and reading outloud.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/10/first-delay/feed/ New Format http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/09/new-format/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/09/new-format/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:26:02 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/09/new-format/ It’s final exams week, but I’ll still record and upload the next chapter, probably on Tuesday. It’s a long chapter (HG Wells), so I might split it in half.

Also, Therese asked that the show be cast in mp3. All old episodes have been updated to use mp3 instead of m4a files. So hopefully they will work with a wider range of players now. Sorry it took so long for me to upload them.

Tell your friends where they can get free GK Chesterton audiobooks!

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/09/new-format/feed/ Heretics 4 : Mr. Bernard Shaw http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/06/heretics-4-mr-bernard-shaw/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/06/heretics-4-mr-bernard-shaw/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:12:38 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/06/heretics-4-mr-bernard-shaw/ Our fourth podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton.

This chapter is the heresy of George Bernard Shaw, which begins with relativism and proceeds to a form of Nietzschean thought.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/06/heretics-4-mr-bernard-shaw/feed/ Our fourth podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. This chapter is the heresy of George Bernard Shaw, which begins with relativism ... Our fourth podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. This chapter is the heresy of George Bernard Shaw, which begins with relativism and proceeds to a form of Nietzschean thought. heretics, chesterton, catholic, bernard shaw, Kevin Walker No No 18:26 Schedule and Faith Journeys http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/05/schedule-and-faith-journeys/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/05/schedule-and-faith-journeys/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:03:29 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/05/schedule-and-faith-journeys/ I figured I should lay out what I expect my schedule to be.

I intend to release at least one cast a week, between 15 and 25 minutes in length, for as long as I have source material to read from. I put a heavy emphasis on at least. I will try very hard to release at least one cast per week, but if I feel like doing more, I will feel free to post them, so I’ve posted three casts so far, and recorded one more that will be posted as soon as I clean it up a little bit.

If there is ever a week when I don’t have any GK Chesterton to read from, I will read from some other, related, public domain books, most likely something by Belloc. Frankly though, I have enough Chesterton to last at least a few months, and can obtain years worth from the Internet.

The podcast will always be readings from public domain audio books related to Chesterton, and never stuff about me. It’s ChesterCast, not WalkerCast. If I have anything to say myself, I will write it as text right here.

Of course, comments and emails, even negative comments provided they are not abusive, are very welcome. If there is some little detail about the podcast that grates you, you do me a much bigger favor by letting me correct it than you could cause me injury by pointing out that an amateur broadcaster is actually an amateur who has a lot to learn. :)

Plus, it’s a wonderful feeling to know that I’m not putting hours into this only to toss my voice off into an empty void.

Someone asked me in email if GK Chesterton played a role in my conversion (I am a former atheist), so I suppose I can share my answer here also, though a bit expanded because I’ve thought of more I’d like to say since then:

Short answer: No, I was already Christian when I read my first Chesterton book (Orthodoxy). But he did have a lot of influence on the type of Christian I became. When I converted, I had something like the Quakers in mind, and I only attended Catholic church because it was the only church available in Beihai, China, and when you are attending church service in a foreign land, a strict liturgy is very helpful also.

Longer answer: Probably the most influential writer in converting me to Christianity was CS Lewis in Mere Christianity. That’s overstating it a bit, because it really was a whole series of things happening one after the other. I became acutely aware, all at once, how angry many of my atheist friends were compared to my Christian friends, and how it had rubbed off on me.

Which inspired me to go read the New Testament and bits of the OT to see if it could really be as bad as I had always taken it to be, and while doing so I had what I can only describe as a “born again experience”. I know that’s a term generally used by evangelicals, but I don’t know of any other term for what I experienced. To be honest, at that point I assumed it was something of a hysteria, until I read CS Lewis’s Mere Christianity, which kind of laid the intellectual framework for me accepting Christianity rationally as well.

At that time, however, what I had in mind was the Quakers. I may have been a Christian, but I wasn’t about to believe a single word that I couldn’t verify with my own reason. Stuff about Mary being swept up into Heaven on a cloud was definitely right out.

GK Chesterton (Orthodoxy) *did* play a big role in making me Catholic, and seeing orthodox Catholicism as a good thing.

I’m not sure which bits of Orthodoxy really worked best, so much as I think needed to see things from the other side of the fence. I’m a young man ( 27. Nintendo generation, and if anyone is interested in hearing my “Defense of Nintendo”, you need only ask, and I will write you a book on the subject. :) ), and I think I never had the case for a ‘traditional’, ‘conservative’ view really made to me, but I had all sorts of people in my life, especially teachers, who, looking back, wanted very much to turn me into a ‘free spirit’.

GK Chesterton made that case to me, and suddenly a great many things that had always frustrated me and infuriated me and even confused me about the world made sense. I could always see what people were doing, but I could never really see what they were trying to do, especially conservatives.

And when Chesterton gave me a vision of what the Catholic Church has, historically, in her good times and bad times, been trying to do, I felt that it fit my image of what we should be trying to do a lot more than Protestantism or my former atheism.

For that matter, when Belloc said that my atheism was a logical consequence of the Reformation having run its course…I couldn’t help but agree with him (though I have a great many Protestant friends who are in a very real sense closer to Christ than I am and who are probably very angry to read that).

I wrote a great deal more than I needed to (and I’ve actually cut a great deal out that meandered to far off topic), so I will stop here.

I will post chapter four, on Mr Bernard Shaw, in the next few hours, as well as upload MP3 versions of the first two chapters.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/05/schedule-and-faith-journeys/feed/ Heretics 3 : On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/04/heretics-3-on-mr-rudyard-kipling-and-making-the-world-small/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/04/heretics-3-on-mr-rudyard-kipling-and-making-the-world-small/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:50:40 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/04/heretics-3-on-mr-rudyard-kipling-and-making-the-world-small/ This is our third chapter from GK Chesterton’s Hertics, written in 1905. From now on, uploads will be in MP3 for enhanced compatibility. MP3 versions of the earlier chapters will be posted soon also. Our Heretic for this chapter is Rudyard Kipling, and the heresy is how Kipling’s cosmopolitan worldliness caused him to miss a very important detail: the world itself.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/04/heretics-3-on-mr-rudyard-kipling-and-making-the-world-small/feed/ This is our third chapter from GK Chesterton's Hertics, written in 1905. From now on, uploads will be in MP3 for enhanced compatibility. MP3 versions ... This is our third chapter from GK Chesterton's Hertics, written in 1905. From now on, uploads will be in MP3 for enhanced compatibility. MP3 versions of the earlier chapters will be posted soon also. Our Heretic for this chapter is Rudyard Kipling, and the heresy is how Kipling's cosmopolitan worldliness caused him to miss a very important detail: the world itself. heretics, chesterton, catholic, small world, cosmopolitan, kipling, Kevin Walker No No 20:36 Heretics 2 : On the Negative Spirit http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/02/heretics-2-on-the-negative-spirit/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/02/heretics-2-on-the-negative-spirit/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:58:39 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/02/heretics-2-on-the-negative-spirit/ Our second podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton.

In the second chapter, “The Negative Spirit”, GK Chesterton discusses the problems with “realism” in morality. Chesterton uses the work of Henrik Ibsen, a late 19th century playright, as his example of “realist morality”, however what he says can be applied to most modern media.

On a technical note, I think I have gotten rid of alot of the background noise that existed in the first chapter. Let me know if you have any advice or comments.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/02/heretics-2-on-the-negative-spirit/feed/ Our second podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. In the second chapter, "The Negative Spirit", GK Chesterton discusses the problems with ... Our second podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. In the second chapter, "The Negative Spirit", GK Chesterton discusses the problems with "realism" in morality. Chesterton uses the work of Henrik Ibsen, a late 19th century playright, as his example of "realist morality", however what he says can be applied to most modern media. On a technical note, I think I have gotten rid of alot of the background noise that existed in the first chapter. Let me know if you have any advice or comments. heretics, chesterton, catholic, negative spirit, realism, realist, ibsen, Kevin Walker No No 18:37 Heretics 1 : Introductory Comments on the Importance of Orthodoxy http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/01/heretics-1-introductory-comments-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/01/heretics-1-introductory-comments-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:06:24 +0000 chestercast Heretics http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/01/heretics-1-introductory-comments-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/ This is our first podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. Forgive some of the background noise, this is my first podcast. Please enjoy, and comments are welcome.

]]> http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/01/heretics-1-introductory-comments-on-the-importance-of-orthodoxy/feed/ This is our first podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. Forgive some of the background noise, this is my first ... This is our first podcast from the book Heretics, written in 1905 by GK Chesterton. Forgive some of the background noise, this is my first podcast. Please enjoy, and comments are welcome. heretics, chesterton, orthodoxy, introduction, introductory, Kevin Walker No No 18:36 Welcome http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/01/welcome/ http://chestercast.podbean.com/2007/12/01/welcome/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:44:20 +0000 chestercast Heretics 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.”

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