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Join the Society for our next meeting on Sunday evening, May 12th, when we will discuss a recent publication from the Society for Gilbert Keith Chesterton, My Name is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome was Paved by G.K. Chesterton. Order your copy today, and see you in May! More details and RSVP form below the jump.
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 Join the Society for our next monthly meeting where we discuss The Ballad of the White Horse, Chesterton's wonderful poem about a 9th century historical battle and the larger cosmic battle it represented.
You can find the poem online, but you may want to purchase a nice annotated edition from the American Chesterton Society. The Society also sells a digital download audio recording of the poem as read by the eminent Chesterton, Mr. Aidan Mackey. A final option is this other audio recording which you can get for free, recommended by our very own Mike K., a reading by Malcom Guite. In any case, you have plenty of options to get ready for the meeting which is right around the corner! The Society will meet again in February to discuss Chesterton's On G.F. Watts. We wanted to announce this book right away so that people have time to procure and read it!  The book is available online and in various formats, but we'd encourage anyone who can to purchase directly from the American Chesterton Society. The edition has some added perks - apart from being able to support the Society with the purchase! Here is the description from the website: "A beautiful new book published by the Watts Gallery in England", this edition "[i]ncludes the full text of Chesterton’s 1904 monograph on Watts, plus several previously uncollected essays by Chesterton on this exquisite artist. 8 full-color plates. Foreword by Mark Bills, Curator of the Watts Gallery." Pick up your copy today and begin reading, and we will see you on Sunday, February 17, 2019 to discuss this fascinating work! Please RSVP for this meeting below.
 This December - on Friday, Dec. 21st at 7:00 PM at Ivy Hall - join us as we discuss one of Chesterton's favorite writers and his classic Christmas tales: we will be discussing Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth.
You can find both books online at Project Gutenberg: click here for A Christmas Carol and click here for The Cricket on the Hearth. You can access another, slightly more readable version of A Christmas Carol here as well. Also, as promised at the November meeting, I'm including a link to a paper I wrote on Dickens' Christmas works: click here to download. Please note: I recommend you read the books before reading the paper, if you are interested in the paper. It depends on the content of the works. See below to RSVP. We hope you'll join us in December for this great discussion of a wonderful seasonal classic and its lesser-known companion work! Members may be interested in an upcoming conference on The Person and Bioethics: Defending the Dignity of the Human Person in Modern Medicine. The conference will be held at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary on October 26-27. For cost and schedule details, click the button below to download a flier. To register, click here. Drop us a line if you plan to attend, and don't forget to mention during receptions and breaks that you're from the local Chesterton society!
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