January 8, 2016 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

January 8, 2016 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

Happy 2016 Fellow WPA Chestertonians,

We will be meeting this Friday evening!

With lightening speed this New Year we will be barely past the Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh of Epiphany, when the second Friday of January will be upon us and it will be time for the monthly meeting of our Western Pennsylvania Chesterton Society.

This month we will resume our reading and discussion of G. K. Chesterton's early philosophical and theological work, Heretics. 

Please note: We will endeavor to wrap up Heretics in our next two meetings. In order to accomplish this, we will cover selected chapters from the rest of the book. 

For the meeting this Friday we will discuss Chapters XI ("Science and the Savages"), XIII ("Celts and Celtophiles"), and XIV ("On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family") 

I encourage you to read the chapters before the meeting, if you can. 

Heretics is available to view on Martin Ward's "Chesterton's Works on the Web" webpage, and is available in downloadable formats on the Project Gutenberg website. If you prefer to listen to an audio file, this LibriVox link might be helpful. The book is also available in a Dover paper back hardcopy on the ACS website (ACS members save 20%) and it is available widely on the internet. 

Starting in March, we will begin discussing Nancy Carpentier-Brown's much anticipated and newly released biography of Frances Chesterton, The Woman Who Was Chesterton. You may want to get your copy and begin enjoying it now! It is available as a hardcopy from the American Chesterton Society's website (www.chesterton.org) or from TAN books (www.tanbooks.com) or in hardcopy or Kindle format from Amazon.

As usual, for this Friday:

Our meeting will be held in the Village of Middle Lancaster, at the Lancaster Township Community Center located on Kings Alley and Community Center Drive, in Butler County PA. Kings Ally is a right turn off of Rt. 19N, approx. 4.5 miles north of Zelienople, just past the Zion Lutheran Church. (The Community Center is a former one room school house, adjacent to the ball fields at Bauder Park.)  The meeting will start at 7:00pm for pot luck refreshments, with the discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting will wrap up around 9:30pm.

Please consider bringing something for the refreshment table. I am looking forward to seeing all of you...

Any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com