Brady Stiller is a recent graduate of University of Notre Dame, who has been part of the founding of a new Chesterton Academy in Covington, Louisiana.

His new book is Your Life is a Story,

G.K. Chesterton and The Paradox of Freedom. That's our topic today. Welcome, Mr. Stiller.

Good to be with you, Mark. You begin with the discussion of the quote, worldview, the worldview.

That's a term whose second syllable highlights something of a subjective nature.

What is your definition, your working definition of worldview in the book?

And I know you're borrowing from Chesterton for that.

You're totally right to kind of include paradoxical emphasis in in asking the question. You say the worldview emphasizing the, emphasizing the objective.

And of course, view, you raise the great point of there could be a

subjective element to worldview. That is at the crux of this book and in the very reason why I wrote

this book. I think as I explored it and found it to be so beautifully really laid out in Chesterton's

writings and really all of his writings. And you can feel this tension in Chesterton's life

itself. It's this question of do we all have our own worldviews or is there also an element of a right worldview that

we should have? And specifically as I explore it in this book, it's a worldview specifically

regarding freedom and meaning. This is an essentially philosophical worldview. So,

you know, maybe to distinguish the scope of the work compared to maybe our view of politics or how we should live our lives and maybe more surface level or opinions. What's explored in this book is more

essentially our views of freedom and meaning. And so as I explore very early on in the book

and certainly using Chesterton's wisdom is the more that you assess worldviews,

and many of us do have our own personal worldviews.

It's a very early claim, I think, on the first page or two of the book,

that there is as many worldviews as there are people alive, it would seen.

At the same time, and this is, I think, certainly how Chesterton viewed it,

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