The Friendly FogeyJun 1, 2020They Began To LaughThe sense of guilt which is born in every man, and is willing to operate without reasonable cause, had here abundant food, and for long...
The Friendly FogeyMay 24, 2020May 25, 2020My 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 FogeyApr 12, 2018Resurrection 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 FogeyOct 30, 2017Chesterton Vs. Lewis On The ReformationThis quote appeared in one of G.K. Chesterton's weekly columns several years before his conversion to Catholicism and is, I think,...
The Friendly FogeyMay 2, 2017Ian Fleming's Moral UniverseA 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 FogeyFeb 12, 2017Graham Green On PrayerI’ve been reading Graham Greene’s Orient Express and this passage struck me. In this scene, Dr. Czinner (a Serbian communist...