29 MAY
29 MAY
A Curious Consolation
It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice.
—from Mere Christianity, Preface
1874 G. K. Chesterton (d. 1936), one of Lewis’s primary spiritual influences, is born.