September Meeting

It was an enjoyable to change the format of the meeting in August and watch a video of Dr. Dermot Quinn speaking at the Beaconsfield Chesterton Conference.  We will also be doing something a little different for our September and October meeting: reading a non-Chesterton work, The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc.

The link I've included above is a pdf version of the page found on the EWTN site.  It will be easier to keep track of quotes and such if we all follow this edition for our meeting, but there is also a site that has the text files of the book, but the formatting is not very good.  There is no free Kindle edition (though one is available for $.99, and isn't that G.B. Shaw pictured with that edition?), nor is there an edition available through Project Gutenberg, and of course, you can always get ahold of a print copy from a bookstore or the library.

So, his dictis, we will read the the introductory materials and the first two heresies--the Arians and the "Great and Enduring" heresy of Mohamed.  We'll meet on September 7 at 7:00 PM.

August Meeting

The next meeting will be on Sunday, July 27 (this is our August meeting) at 7:00 PM.  We will be watching a video of a talk by Dr Dermot Quinn on ’Wholeness and Holiness’ from the Beaconsfield Chesterton Conference.  You can also listen to an audio version.  The video is about 53 minutes long.

Thanks to Mike for providing the links.

The New GKC Biography

From Ellen Finan from the next Society to the east:

This is a good read. It goes beyond the standard book review and makes some interesting points of its own. Also brings in what other literary critics have to say about GKC, including Harold Bloom.
From the June 2014 New Oxford Review. Thanks to Anita Gorman for the link.

July Meeting

The July meeting will be held June 29 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We will be discussing "The Logic of Lawn Tennis" and "Humanitarianism and Strength."

June Meeting

We will meet at 7:00 PM in the rectory on June 1st for this month's meeting.  Two of G.K.'s many essays, Asparagus and Chalk, were chosen for this month's readings.

May Meeting

The May meeting will be on May 4.  We'll be reading two essays: Why Wine is Red and Cheese.  My guess is that we will be drinking wine and eating cheese, too.

April Meeting

This month's meeting will be Sunday 4/13 at 7:00.  We'll be finishing our discussion of Man Alive.

Sorry for the last minute post!

March Meeting

The next meeting will be March 9 at 7:00 PM at the rectory.  We will be discussing part one of Manalive.

February Meeting

The next meeting will be February 9 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We'll finish The Surprise.  No surprises about who stole the show at the last meeting.  We had a great time, and no need to read ahead!

January Meeting

The January meeting is schedule for January 12 at 7:00 PM.  We will be reading The Surprise (the not adapted for television version).

The plan is to do a dramatic reading and to discuss each act (or maybe scene) as we finish it.  We may not even get through one act.