Welcome to God's Bling.

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Contemplative Preachers, Contemporary Age.

Each week join the Dominican friars as they consider all things cattle.

This is God's explaining.

My name is Father Bonaventure. And I am Father Gregory Pine. We're here at the Dominican

House of Studies and Father Bonaventure is a graduate student at CUA and philosophy

and I work for the Tymistic Institute.

So today we're looking at or talking about literature, but specifically one essayist novelist,

philosopher, autographist, bi, autobographist,

G K Chesterton, a favorite of Father Gregory's.

Dig.

So we are looking forward to kind of getting into it

with Chesterton and maybe down the road talk about

other famous literary figures and the Christian intellectual tradition.

But we thought that before we just kind of like launch into a discussion of those particular figures and

their special loves or what it is that they're best known for that we might just kind

of zoom out and examine why discuss literature in the first place.

So maybe just to take it from that point,

what is it about literature that is significant in human life,

in human culture?

And specifically on a podcast,

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