It’s so cool to see how the budget for this channel has grown so much, the new cgi at 2:33 makes “Baby Trent” look way more realistic! You would almost think it’s a real toddler!
Anna, I'm starting to think you must be stalking me via my RU-vid subscriptions somehow; but most likely I just need to compliment your excellent taste in YT channels. 😁
I once had a friend tell me that reading Chesterton "is like playing a pinball machine; he bounces you around from metaphor to metaphor, unfolding his idea, and then lands on something quite stirring and profound." I could not have agreed more. Certainly my favorite author.
Execellent desxription! Yoir friend shows to be a high quality person. He is one of my favourites too. I disagree with his ideas on very few topics, but I consider him a real helper in Faith that God provided for intellectual people.
'Like the fire, the woman is expected to illuminate and ventilate, not by the most startling revelations or the wildest winds of thought, but better than a man can do it after breaking stones or lecturing'. - Also Chesterton. We love your videos, Horn family ❤️
In case anyone thinks Chesterton is actually an anti-Semite, let me make three points: 1. Chesterton had multiple life-long Jewish friends. For example, he dedicated his book "The Innocence of Father Brown" to Waldo d’Avigdor and his wife Mildred. Waldo was a Jew. 2. Rabbi Stephen Wise, the President of the American Jewish Congress, had this to say about him in 1937 shortly after Chesterton's death: “Indeed, I was a warm admirer of Gilbert Chesterton. Apart from his delightful art and his genius in many directions, he was, as you know, a great religionist . . . I deeply respected him. When Hitlerism came, he was one of the first to speak out with all the directness and frankness of a great and unabashed spirit. Blessing to his memory!” 3. Chesterton criticized every nationality and people. He also praised every nationality and people. And he did both with a sense of humor. A lot of the quotes that people cherry pick out of context are meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Being against something doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to be hateful or uncharitable. I would hope that as Christians we are anti-whatever religion that doesn’t recognize that Jesus is the son of God.
I really struggle to read deeply philosophical texts 😅. Like when I read confessions of St. Augustine, I could stay focused while reading his testimony, but once the philosophy part started my mind just began to drift. Same with some of the Screwtape letters. I guess what keeps my attention best are stories.
Doesn't it feel great when you read the opening of Summa Theologica, and it says "This is for beginners," and you're like "okay great! I got this!" And by the next page you've already decided you are not worthy to be called a beginner.
I'm so glad I listened to the Pints with Aquinas 401k debate yesterday. Jacob Imam had me totally sold until Trent started talking and then the "give your children inheritance not debt" is what I'm standing for now 😅
I love Chesterton and I understand what he's saying... most of the time XD I think I like his bestie Hilaire Belloc more, because he's just easier to read for me personally, though they both were great catholic authors and their works are amazing
You have a very strange vision for your RU-vid channel that oddly works…if I didn’t see your videos I would have never known how much I actually needed this stuff. It’s like my daily Parks & Rec fix that is somehow strangely Christian but not too Christian that it is embarrassing. You’re a funny person.
For anyone wanting to read Chesterton without the obscure references and unfamiliar British words, there is now a way. There is now an "American translation" of Chesterton's famous and beloved book "Orthodoxy". This "translation" leaves intact as much of the original text as possible, while omitting, summarizing, or rewording all that would make a modern day American's eyes glaze over.
@@josephpadula2283 If you're very well read, that makes sense. But for those who aren't, one advantage that non-English speakers have is that their translations already do this.
It’s pretty amazing just how much you can actually do on less than one acre. Right now I have more grapes, pears, eggs cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes than I know what to do with and in about a month I’ll be flooded with apples and potatoes. It’s honestly pretty amazing how little effort goes into it all, the worst part is figuring out what to do with all of it so that it doesn’t go to waste.
This episode perfectly sums up my experience reading Chesterton. I enjoy many of his quotes and I resonate with his poets heart, but he writing to his time and extra effort needed to comprehend the context turns an otherwise light read into a slog.
I actually laughed out loud. I love the intellectual heights that some people attain but I think right now I'm content just watching people on RU-vid talk about other smart people. My library is full of books lookin much smarter than me.
It's not a bio. It is an extended blog essay, written for people who have read a lot about St. Francis already. And it also ties into his book about Jesus, and his book about St. Thomas Aquinas. But it is all comments. Basically, if I stopped at your house and told you cool things I had noticed, I would be writing you a Chesterton essay.
Re: Chesterton, he really isn't that hard. But it helps to have a lot of Victorian writing under your belt, or to be fresh off a C. S. Lewis binge. Reading him aloud does require some practice, or marking your phrases for where to take a breath. He obviously was the kind of guy who just talked like that, but it is a bit hard on an audience when I am an American chick....
Hey cutie! Please don't poke your adorable fun at Knights of Columbus. We need you to encourage us. God bless you and your family. Trent I love you too brother! Thanks for helping to bring me back home!
: “Madam, if I were to treat you for two minutes like a comrade, you would turn me out of the house.” Chesterton is my comrade. Sorry you can’t join us. :)
Can confirm, pipes are still a thing as are cigars. The guys in my friend group like to meet up on the porch and smoke and debate life topics (and obscure nerd stuff) whole the gals stay in on the couch talking gal things (life, pregnancy/babies, and ragging on modern women 😋).
2:18 Perhaps he was thinking of the Dreyfus case - in both trials, he trusted French justice. And note, before the Balfour declaration, Jews were _very_ pro-Prussian, world wide.
Serious question At 2:35 was John Paul acting in the scene or was that "NO" a genuine answer? Cause it sounded like he said it from the bottom of his heart
