{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"G.K. Chesterton on the Paradox of Righteous Anger and Holy Impatience","description":"G.K. Chesterton never lost his outrage at true injustice, yet when a woman called him a coward for not being at the front in World War I, he answered with a joke about his own size. Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski trace how he held both, through his portrait of St. Francis chasing a leper he had recoiled from and his insistence in Orthodoxy that a man fighting sin must be not a patient but an impatient.  In This Episode: The formula G.K. Chesterton helps unpack: be impatient with injustice when others suffer it, and patient when you suffer it yourself How Chesterton\u2019s St. Francis kept the impatience of a young man who dreamed of fame as a soldier, and used it on errands of mercy Why Chesterton said a man may lie still to be cured of a malady, but must get up and jump about violently to be cured of a sin Why Chesterton held that the rational optimist fails Chesterton\u2019s challenge: can a man hate the world enough to change it, yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Resources Mentioned: St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton FOLLOW US Instagram Facebook X SUPPORT Consider making a donation Visit our Shop Chapters: 00:00: Holy impatience and righteous anger 04:44: Impatient for others, patient for ourselves 11:51: Rage bait, the currency of our culture 17:22: What makes anger righteous? 18:43: Francis the Fighter 22:15: \u201cA certain precipitancy was the very poise of his soul\u201d 27:50: Anger as an opportunity cost 30:32: Chesterton\u2019s own anger, and where it veered 32:42: Orthodoxy: not a patient, but an impatient 33:55: Easy on ourselves, no quarter to the enemy 38:05: The Buddhist saint and the Christian saint 41:26: \u201cA fierce delight and a fiercer discontent\u201d Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios ","author_name":"Uncommon Sense","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/23918\/site","html":"