The American Chesterton Society - The Orthodoxy Centennial

A bit of heaven may be coming to earth! Just think: three entire days to discuss the work of Gilbert Keith Chesterton!

This is the announcement for the 27th Annual Chesterton Conference to be held at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Check out Friday's schedule in and of itself:

Friday, June 13

8:00 am: Breakfast

9:00 am: Tom Martin
(Professor of Philosophy at University of Nebraska-Kearney and Editor of The Examined Life)
“The Maniac: Especially, Nietzsche”

10:30 am: Sean Dailey
(Editor-in-Chief of Gilbert Magazine)
“The Suicide of Thought: Intellectual Helplessness”

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm: Jennifer Overkamp
(Doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Instructor at Saint Gregory the Great Seminary, Seward, Nebraska)
“The Ethics of Elfland: Fairy Tale Philosophy in a Gift Universe”

2:30 pm: Ross Arnold
(President of Ross Arnold and Associates
and Teacher at University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, Washington)
“The Paradoxes of Christianity: The Danger of Not Paying Attention”

4:00 pm: James Woodruff
(Teacher of Mathematics at Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts)
“Chesterton and Pascal: Not All Mathematicians Go Mad”

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm: Joseph Pearce
(Author of biographies of Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien, Solzhenitsyn, Wilde and the newly released The Quest for Shakespeare)
“The Orthodoxy of Shakespeare”

8:30 pm: Dwight Longenecker
(Chaplain of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Greenville, South Carolina, and author of 10 books, including Adventures in Orthodoxy)
“The Romance of Orthodoxy: Why Heresy is Dull and Deadly”