PBS fans of eccentric detective Father Brown may not know his literary creator was the illustrious writer of the 1920s named G.K. Chesterton (died 1935), devout Christian and friend of atheists H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. This makes him a sterling example of reaching out across the divides.
Chesterton was author of about 100 books and famous for the paradox that "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, its been tried and found difficult and abandoned."
G.K. was a noted model for the other well-regarded 20th Century Christian apologist, C.S. Lewis who highly praised the work "The Everlasting Man."