How did a young man go from being a racist teenage thug,  who did gaol time, to one of the world’s leading Catholic writers. 

You can thank that lovable character from the G.K. Chesterton novels, Father Brown. 

JOSEPH PEARCE became captivated by the gentle, crime-solving priest, turned his life around and became a biographer of Chesterton and J.R.R. Tolkien. 

He brought his extraordinary story to Australia recently as a guest of Hartford College, a liberal studies school in Sydney.

Joseph Pearce is a US based British philosopher and author