PRAISE FOR
A YEAR WITH G. K. CHESTERTON

“A Year with G. K. Chesterton will be a treasure, both for those who are coming to his wit and wisdom as a fresh discovery and for those who have known and loved his work for years. I am among the latter but Kevin Belmonte’s reading is so wide, his eye for a gem so acute, and his principles of selection so original, that I have been as much surprised by previously undiscovered treasures as I have been pleased with familiar friends.

Chesterton’s talent for paradox and his ability to embody profound truth in simple images makes him as compelling now as he was a hundred years ago. Though Kevin Belmonte’s selection is full of Chesterton’s whimsy and humour, he has also brought out perhaps the most important side of GKC—that he was a prophet in his own time and a prophet for ours, speaking out against insidious evils and kindling us all again to a common love of the common good.”

 — The Reverend Dr. Malcolm
Guite, chaplain of Girton
College, Cambridge
University 

“Kevin Belmonte writes in the preface to this excellent book that his editing of it has been a gift. As an author who has written regularly on Chesterton I can understand his sense of gratitude at having been able to spend so much time with a genius as genial as the great GKC. Thanks to Belmonte’s labor of love we can all spend a few moments of every day of the year in Chesterton’s inimitable company. All admirers of Chesterton and the Christian truth he explicates so sublimely will be grateful to Kevin Belmonte for this gem of a gift.”

 — Joseph Pearce, author of
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life
of G. K. Chesterton

“Chesterton once a day? Well, that’s a start. It is good to see that someone is finally recognizing the need for a daily minimum requirement of mirth and meditation from GKC.”

 — Dale Ahlquist, president,
American Chesterton Society

“Ever since Frances Chesterton chose quotes in 1912 for a Chesterton Day book, people have enjoyed taking a strong daily dose of Chestertonian wisdom. This new book offers the world a multivitamin of sanity, which should be read each morning with coffee or each evening with beer. Kevin Belmonte’s new book will improve your health.”

— Nancy Brown, the American
Chesterton Society at
chesterton.org

“Who could not be grateful for a year spent with GKC? The great subverter of everything taken for granted, he stretches and deepens us with his insights, shakes us with his startling paradoxes and delights us with his wit. Thank God there is no getting to the end of Chesterton.”

— Os Guinness, author of A Free
People’s Suicide

“Kevin Belmonte’s A Year with G. K. Chesterton provides a glimpse into the breadth and depth of GKC’s work—it’s ideal for dipping into for refreshment and insight, and also serves as a guidepost for further reading.”

 — Dr. Holly Ordway,
professor of apologetics,
Houston Baptist University

“A sagacious journalistic soupe du jour.”

 — David Baird, trustee,
G. K. Chesterton Library,
Oxford; ...