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A new school year in Atchison, the Gospel’s great reversal, Chesterton at the morning table, and a beloved teacher who never really leaves his classroom
Good morning from Chesterton Radio — the little station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas.
This is Daybreak, our morning gathering for the Gospel, life around Atchison and Benedictine College, interesting stories from the wider world, books and ideas, and something worth hearing from the Chesterton Radio shelves.
This morning begins with Matthew 19:23–30 in the Douay-Rheims Bible: the rich young man has walked away, Peter asks what will become of those who have left everything behind, and Christ answers with one of the Gospel’s great reversals:
“Many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.”
Here in Atchison, Benedictine College is stirring back to life for another academic year. That makes today’s featured listening particularly fitting: James Hilton’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the enduring story of an apparently ordinary schoolmaster whose influence reaches across generations.
We’ll open the Chesterton Radio shelves to several different versions of the story — BBC radio, Lux Radio Theatre, Screen Guild Theatre, and our own Common Room deep dive — and consider what Mr. Chips still has to say about teachers, vocation, memory, friendship and the extraordinary consequences of an ordinary life faithfully lived.
Along the way, we’ll pull up a chair for G. K. Chesterton and look around the morning table at a few stories worth talking about from Atchison, the Church, education, culture, history, science and the wider world.
Pour another cup. Daybreak has begun.
Help Keep the Little Station On the Air
Chesterton Radio is listener-supported.
If Daybreak, our stories, classic radio, deep dives and 24-hour streams have become part of your day, please consider helping us keep the doors open and the programs coming.
Support Chesterton Radio:
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Every contribution helps us preserve old treasures, discover forgotten ones, and create something new around them.
Sponsor Daybreak
Daybreak is now open to sponsors.
If you have a business, school, apostolate, publisher, organization, event or product that would be a natural fit for the Chesterton Radio audience, we’d be glad to talk.
Sponsorship opportunities can include Daybreak program sponsorships, brief acknowledgements within the show, and ongoing partnerships across the Chesterton Radio world.
Interested in sponsoring Daybreak? Get in touch with us through Chesterton Radio:
The Chesterton Radio World
Chesterton Radio — Stories • Ideas • Wonder
The Open Door — Chesterton Radio, 24 Hours a Day
live.chestertonradio.com
Chesterton Radio on YouTube
youtube.com/@ChestertonRadio
Support the Little Station
buymeacoffee.com/chestertonradio/membership
The coffee is on. The Common Room is open.
And the Open Door is always on.
A new school year in Atchison, the Gospel’s great reversal, Chesterton at the morning table, and a beloved teacher who never really leaves his classroom
Good morning from Chesterton Radio — the little station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas.
This is Daybreak, our morning gathering for the Gospel, life around Atchison and Benedictine College, interesting stories from the wider world, books and ideas, and something worth hearing from the Chesterton Radio shelves.
This morning begins with Matthew 19:23–30 in the Douay-Rheims Bible: the rich young man has walked away, Peter asks what will become of those who have left everything behind, and Christ answers with one of the Gospel’s great reversals:
“Many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.”
Here in Atchison, Benedictine College is stirring back to life for another academic year. That makes today’s featured listening particularly fitting: James Hilton’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the enduring story of an apparently ordinary schoolmaster whose influence reaches across generations.
We’ll open the Chesterton Radio shelves to several different versions of the story — BBC radio, Lux Radio Theatre, Screen Guild Theatre, and our own Common Room deep dive — and consider what Mr. Chips still has to say about teachers, vocation, memory, friendship and the extraordinary consequences of an ordinary life faithfully lived.
Along the way, we’ll pull up a chair for G. K. Chesterton and look around the morning table at a few stories worth talking about from Atchison, the Church, education, culture, history, science and the wider world.
Pour another cup. Daybreak has begun.
Help Keep the Little Station On the Air
Chesterton Radio is listener-supported.
If Daybreak, our stories, classic radio, deep dives and 24-hour streams have become part of your day, please consider helping us keep the doors open and the programs coming.
Support Chesterton Radio:
buymeacoffee.com/chestertonradio/membership
Every contribution helps us preserve old treasures, discover forgotten ones, and create something new around them.
Sponsor Daybreak
Daybreak is now open to sponsors.
If you have a business, school, apostolate, publisher, organization, event or product that would be a natural fit for the Chesterton Radio audience, we’d be glad to talk.
Sponsorship opportunities can include Daybreak program sponsorships, brief acknowledgements within the show, and ongoing partnerships across the Chesterton Radio world.
Interested in sponsoring Daybreak? Get in touch with us through Chesterton Radio:
The Chesterton Radio World
Chesterton Radio — Stories • Ideas • Wonder
The Open Door — Chesterton Radio, 24 Hours a Day
live.chestertonradio.com
Chesterton Radio on YouTube
youtube.com/@ChestertonRadio
Support the Little Station
buymeacoffee.com/chestertonradio/membership
The coffee is on. The Common Room is open.
And the Open Door is always on.
