Sometimes I read articles or blog posts filled with references to what this or that authority figure has said about the topic at hand, and then the post ends. I suppose the opinions of authority figures can be interesting, but they can also be awful. There’s nothing about being relatively well known that automatically confers either wit or wisdom!

At times like that I’m reminded of a priest who served part time at an Episcopal Church I belonged to during the 1990s whose every sermon contained between three and five references to GK Chesterton. This priest, a bright and eloquent man, never got around to telling me what he thought about the topic at hand. I remember thinking that if I wanted to know what Chesterton thought, I could buy a book – I wanted to know what he thought.

Don’t sell yourself short. Tell me what you think! I really want to know! By the way, I still don’t own a GK Chesterton book!