tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314423604373130624.post4210672229472864025..comments2023-11-26T17:13:26.653-05:00Comments on Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG): "Rich [Mullins] once literally forced me to read Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton." Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108843791322871067noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314423604373130624.post-4856433447821641152014-05-24T08:05:38.388-04:002014-05-24T08:05:38.388-04:00Thanks for the information. That's awesome. :-...Thanks for the information. That's awesome. :-)Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00108843791322871067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314423604373130624.post-78118371680287794392014-05-19T15:34:14.792-04:002014-05-19T15:34:14.792-04:00How lovely...I could easily see Rich doing that.
...How lovely...I could easily see Rich doing that. <br /><br />Andrew Peterson (widely considered Mullins's musical successor) is also a big Chesterton fan. And Jason Gray (of Remind Me Who I Am fame). And Andrew Osenga, formerly of Caedmon's Call. Oh, and N.D. Wilson, who wrote NYTimes Bestseller 100 Cupboards. It's All Connected. :)<br /><br />I really enjoy your Influence of Chesterton page - besides the musicians/authors I've mentioned, Tolkien also directly named Chesterton in a letter:<br />"What a dreadful, fear-darkened, sorrow-laden world we live in — especially for those who have also the burden of age, whose friends and all they especially care for are afflicted in the same way. Chesterton once said that it is our duty to keep the Flag of This World flying: but it takes now a sturdier and more sublime patriotism than it did then. Gandalf added that it is not for us to choose the times into which we are born, but to do what we could to repair them; but the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and so many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally to refuse to worship any of the hydras’ heads."Hannah Longhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529410255089707007noreply@blogger.com