Reflections on God … Man … Life
I’m an introvert. God made me with that type of personality. I think I’m on solid ground in making a distinction between personality and character. Personality is something that comes hard-wired; character is what you do with the personality you have been given. As an introvert, I’m uneasy pushing my way into a conversation, I tend to sit in the back of rooms, and I don’t really want to draw attention to myself. Many introverts who are drawn to academia… Read more »
G.K. Chesterton begins his autobiography in his most Chestertonian manner, stating, “Bowing down to blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment of private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 20th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington.” Can anyone top that when attempting to write an account of one’s life? I won’t… Read more »