Someone asked me a question yesterday via the GKChestertonQuote.com site: If "revolution" is so often used as a leftist and communist idea, why would a Christian author like G.K. Chesterton issue a call to revolution like "Pray for Revolution?" To paraphrase Chesterton in Manalive, a revolution is always a return. A revolution is a radical change,... Continue Reading →
Pigs, America, and Property in Revolution
This past weekend, we marked the anniversary of American independence, with much fanfare and perhaps some somber remembrance. One of the items that tends to circulate is a list of the sacrifices faced by the signatories of the Declaration. While some of the extreme losses are exaggerated, as Snopes.com points out, some of the more... Continue Reading →
The Wind, The Trees, and Revolution – G.K. Chesterton Guest Post
This essay, which appears in the volume Tremendous Trifles, is an important one to me and the idea of Eternal Revolution for (at least) two great reasons. First, it explains the idea that revolution is never the actions of mankind, for the revolution must always start as a spiritual movement towards an ideal. Second, it reminds us that... Continue Reading →
Pray for Revolution
If you've ever received an email from me, I use a non-standard closing: "Pray for Revolution." It's a phrase that appears throughout the site here at Eternal Revolution and there is even a shirt design using the phrase. I realized I never explained the source anywhere on this site. I admit, it is an... Continue Reading →
Revolution Starts With You
It is all too easy to push off changing the world to things that “society,” “the future,” or even worse, “the government” ought to do. You may have noticed we don’t talk a lot here on Eternal Revolution about current politics, if at all. Most of us can’t affect the power plays of the ruling... Continue Reading →