Journey With Jesus

March 22, 2020 — Like many of you, I am “sheltering in place” as I write this essay, and battling fear as the news headlines grow darker and grimmer.  Here in California, most stores and businesses are closed, medical professionals are facing equipment shortages, the streets are ominously quiet, and the number of Covid-19 cases is growing by the day.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935 for his 80 books and 4,000 essays. The eccentric artist, apologist, writer and critic is perhaps best remembered for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown.