Reading Father Brown
Since I am trying to write a series of mystery novels (the next ones will be increasingly dark), I am a student of the genre--not the James Patterson stuff, but the primary British sources. I've moved on to G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown series.
Of course, they are brilliant. And Chesterton's brilliant theology (in the British sense of the word and the American) is the best part.
"The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen." G K Chesterton
Of course, they are brilliant. And Chesterton's brilliant theology (in the British sense of the word and the American) is the best part.
"The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen." G K Chesterton
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