The Friendly Fogey
They Began To Laugh
The sense of guilt which is born in every man, and is willing to operate without reasonable cause, had here abundant food, and for long...
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The Friendly Fogey
- May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020
My first child would have been born today, on May 25, 2020. He died in miscarriage on October 15. The pain and grief of miscarriage have...
The Friendly Fogey
- Apr 12, 2018
Resurrection And Liturgy In 'A Tale Of Two Cities'
My favorite Easter read is A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Among other things, it beautifully depicts how to practically live...
The Friendly Fogey
- Oct 30, 2017
Chesterton Vs. Lewis On The Reformation
This quote appeared in one of G.K. Chesterton's weekly columns several years before his conversion to Catholicism and is, I think,...
The Friendly Fogey
- May 2, 2017
Ian Fleming's Moral Universe
A few years ago I came across The Seven Deadly Sins, a collection of seven essays on the volume’s namesake. Evelyn Waugh contributed the...
The Friendly Fogey
- Feb 12, 2017
Graham Green On Prayer
I’ve been reading Graham Greene’s Orient Express and this passage struck me. In this scene, Dr. Czinner (a Serbian communist...
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