Pithy quotes from our current reading which give us pause to reflect

Yes, I highly recommend it… I have it on Kindle. They are a collection of short mystery stories where Father Brown is a humble, accidental detective. There are at least 2 TV series adaptations, many of them good stories but quite changed in the last one. They still show some good morals. Everyone has their faults, and Chesterton kept some views from his age which I hesitate to read to my kids yet, as they are anti Semitic and some racist in appearance. (filtered out in the movies). He also seems to dislike Protestants, Scots, and Americans, so at least he isn’t narrow. However, he also calls racism a work of the Devil, and praises some American things…so you would have to read it for yourself to see what I mean.

Yes, it is on PBS
https://www.pbs.org/search/?q=Father+Brown

If I recall correctly, he dabbled in the occult before he became a Catholic. He was an artist. I posted a thread which some folks wrote about him on here Musing On G K Chesterton

I have to read more. I would be interested in what you think.

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