In G.K. Chesterton's Saint Francis of Assisi, we discover a man of paradox, bearing great resemblance to his biographer. We see a man in love with God and all creation, singing in the woods, calming the wild wolf, preaching to the birds and squirrels. Yet we see this same man beating his body, rolling in the snow to freeze burning desires, praying and fasting until illness, and then receiving the puzzling gift of the stigmata. How can we make sense of Francis? By reading Chesterton's biography. Chesterton understood the man of Assisi as few other biographers did. This study guide to...

Frances Chesterton, wife of British journalist G.K. Chesterton, was a gentle poet and playwright. Her sweet works long lay in obscurity, except for a few Christmas lyrics, which have never gone out of print. Her plays for children were in demand when she wrote them; there is a demand for them again today. Her poems and plays reveal a woman of deep thought, a spiritual woman, a woman longing for Christ, and especially drawn to Him at the Nativity, when He was a small baby. To read these works is to understand better G.K. Chesterton's wife and spiritual companion. And so, these works are...

The Children's Crusade is a play in four scenes, with a cast of 21 children and adults plus more children as needed, with music and knightly pageantry.

This play written by G.K. Chesterton's wife Frances Chesterton, is an interesting weaving of faith and fable, gods and saints. She calls it an old fashioned morality tale. With an introduction by Frances Chesterton expert Nancy Carpentier Brown, the play creates an interesting juxtaposition of the old and the new, the darkness and the light.