I did not anticipate finishing Orthodoxy and finding in it a unity of my other recent reading. I thought I was picking up something serious and more arcane. But it pulled together many of the ideas from Merton, Martin, and Nouwen -- a view of the orthodox Christian life as participation in the Trinity, yoking ourselves to the love that unites three into one. Chesterton is clearly a man of his time, as are all men and all women, but his vision of wonder, mirth, and mystery is timeless. The book and ideas in it are so humane and tied to an experience of humanity that I share so I found it very connected to the emotional life of the Church in a way that reaffirmed my faith. The whole sections about Darwinism and the light sexism drove me a little bananas, but I'm sure 75% of what I say now will sound like that in a century. I definitely need to read more of Chesterton's nonfiction even if I find it challenging. (Especially because it's challenging.)