All About Evangelicals

Lately I’ve been rereading and (with Wendy) listening to the stories collected in G. K. Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown (1911). There are always good reasons to pick up something by GKC, but I’ve been reading a lot of him just now in connection with a project of Wheaton College scholar Matthew Milliner, familiar to readers of First Things. This academic year, at Wheaton’s Wade Center, Milliner is giving the Hansen Lectures. His series will include three talks under the general title “Turtle Island Renaissance,” illuminating “the broad sweep of Native American art, especially in the Midwest,” and drawing on insights from Chesterton—a wonderfully improbable but, as it turns out, fruitful conjunction. To better prepare myself for this series (the lectures will later be published as a book), I’ve been reading GKC somewhat indiscriminately.