March 14, 2013 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

Greetings Fellow WPA Chestertonians!

Our next meeting will be on Thursday March 14, 2013. We will continue discussing the essays compiled in the book In Defense of Sanity , edited by Dale Ahlquist, published by Ignatius Press.

In light of the fact that I will be in Rome on a Lenten Pilgrimage with the American Chesterton Society on March 14, veteran group member and long time Chestertonian Harry Colin has graciously agreed to lead the discussion.

In keeping with the Lenten timing of the meeting the readings for March will include: 

"The Book of Job" (originally published in 1929 as an essay titled "The Introduction to the Book of Job")
"On Original Sin" (originally published in 1930 as a chapter in his book Come to Think of It ) 

To fill out the line up, Chesterton's essay "The Pickwick Papers" will be also included... Dickens being the master study of human nature that he is. This was originally published in 1911 as Chapter 3 of his book Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens.

All of the readings are included in the book In Defense of Sanity. They are also available to view/print on the internet at this link:
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/index.html

As usual, the 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 doors will open at 7:00pm for pot luck refreshments, with the discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting will wrap up around 9:30pm. 

Please feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com if you have any questions about the readings or anything else.