Meeting 12/17

Greetings!

We'll meet this week at Ryan's apartment to discuss the poem A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan and the essay On Abolishing Sunday, starting at 7:30 pm.


Even if you can't make it, enjoy this exciting day: the famous "O Antiphons" are starting!

- Tom

Meeting 12/10

Greetings!

We'll meet this week at Ryan's apartment to discuss the essay Anti-religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century, starting at 7:30 pm.


The readings for the upcoming weeks will include

• A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan,
• On Abolishing Sunday, and
• The Polish Ideal.

The order has not yet been definitively determined.

-Tom

Meeting 11/19 -- New Time

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Ryan's at 7:30 pm to discuss the final two chapters of All Things Considered:

• Chapter 34: A Dead Poet
• Chapter 35: Christmas

Note that beginning this week, the meeting time will be half an hour earlier than it used to be.

-Tom

Meeting 11/12

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Tom's at 8:00 pm to discuss All Things Considered:

• Chapter 32: Tom Jones and Morality
• Chapter 33: The Maid of Orleans

Meeting 11/4

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Ryan's at 8:00 pm to discuss All Things Considered:

• Chapter 30: The "Eatanswill Gazette"
• Chapter 31: Fairy Tales

Yes, these are the same chapters as were assigned last week.

Meeting 10/29

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Tom's at 8:15 pm to discuss chapters 30--31 of All Things Considered.

Sorry for the late notice.

Meeting 10/22

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Ryan's at 8:00 pm to discuss chapters 28--29 of All Things Considered. They are entitled "Wine When It Is Red" and "Demagogues and Mystagogues," respectively. (These are the same chapters as we had planned to discuss at our last meeting.)

-Tom

Meeting 10/15

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Tom's at 8:00 pm to discuss chapters 28--29 of All Things Considered. They are entitled "Wine When It Is Red" and "Demagogues and Mystagogues," respectively.

-Tom

meeting - October 8

Hello all!

We will be having our latest episode of the Chesterton club on October 8th at my house (Ryan's). We will be reading the chapter entitled phonetic spelling along with the following chapter (I do not know the numbers of them right now).

Meeting Oct 1 - Cancelled!

Greetings all! This Wednesday there will be no meeting. We will renew our regularly scheduled meetings Oct 8th. 

Meeting 9/24

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Tom's at 8:00 pm to discuss chapters 24--25 of All Things Considered.

-Tom

Meeting 9/17

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at Ryan's at 8:00 pm to discuss chapters 22--23 of All Things Considered.

-Tom

Meeting 9/10/2014

Greetings! This Wednesday we will meet at my place at 8:00 pm to discuss chapters 20--21 of All Things Considered.

- Tom

Meeting 9/3/2014

Greetings all! This Wednesday we will be meeting at my place to discuss chapters 18--19.

Meeting 8/27

We will be having another episode of 'Chesterton at the Spikes' this Wednesday 8/27. We'll watch the Spikes and talk about Chapters 16--17 of 'All Things Considered'. The game starts at 7. Tickets are free for students if you go to the HUB and pick them up during the day. Otherwise bleacher seats are $3 at the box office. And it is half-price domestic beer night (no micro-brews are half-price though, Yuengling is the best you can get).

If you want to carpool and save $3 for parking then email or text me and I will save you a spot in my car. I'll be leaving my place at 630. Let me know if you are coming so we can find you at the gates and sit together. ~Ryan

Meeting 8/6

We'll meet this Wednesday (8/6) at Tom's apartment at 8:00 PM to discuss chapters 10 and 11 of All Things Considered.

Meeting 7/23

We'll meet this Wednesday (7/23) at Ryan's apartment at 8:00 PM to discuss chapters 8 and 9 of All Things Considered.

-Tom

Meeting 6/25

We'll meet this Wednesday (6/25) at my apartment at 8:00 PM to discuss chapters 6 and 7 of All Things Considered.

- Tom

Meeting 6/18

We'll meet this Wednesday (6/18) at my apartment at 8:00 PM to discuss chapters 4 and 5 of All Things Considered.

Meeting 6/4 at Ryan's

We'll meet this Wednesday (6/4) at 8:00 PM at Ryan's to discuss chapters 2--3 of All Things Considered.

Also, in case anybody is interested, this book is available in audio format from LibriVox.

Meeting Tonight

We'll meet tonight (5/28) at my apartment around 8 to discuss the first essay in All Things Considered: "The Case for the Ephemeral."

Meeting 5/28

Sorry for the delay. Our next book is All Things Considered. The three versions can be found on the "Readings" page, linked on the right, or using the following links:

• Standard
• Paper-saving
• E-book

This week, we'll discuss the first essay, "The Case for the Ephemeral." Check back on Wednesday for the meeting location.

No Meeting on 5/21

We will not have a meeting this week. I shall post our next book no later than Friday.

Meeting 5/14

Greetings!

We'll meet this week at 8:00 PM on May 14 at my apartment to discuss the final three chapters (13--15) of The Man Who Was Thursday. Please also think of suggestions for what to read next.

- Tom

Meeting 5/7---Chapters 11--12

Hello all,

We will meet at my place (Ryan's) at 8 P.M. on 5/7 to discuss Chapters 11--12 of 'The Man Who Was Thursday'.

Thanks,

~Ryan

Meeting 4/30

Hi all,

We'll meet at my apartment Wednesday night at 8pm. We will discuss Chapters 9--10 of 'The Man Who Was Thursday'. ~Ryan

Chapters 7 and 8 This Week

Greetings!

We'll meet this week to continue discussing The Man Who Was Thursday.

• Easter Wednesday at 8:00 PM
• My (Tom's) apartment
• Chapter 7: "The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor De Worms"
• Chapter 8: "The Professor Explains"

-Tom

Chapter 6 This Week

Greetings!

We'll meet tonight (4/16) at 8:00 at my apartment to discuss chapter 6, "The Exposure" of The Man Who Was Thursday.

-Tom

Chapter 5 This Week

We'll meet at my apartment this Wednesday, 4/9, at 8:00 PM to discuss chapter 5 of The Man Who Was Thursday.

-Tom

Chapter 4 This Week

Greetings!

We'll meet to discuss chapter 4 of The Man Who Was Thursday, entitled "The Tale of a Detective," tomorrow (by the time the email reminder is sent, today), Wednesday, at my apartment, at 8:00 PM.

Chapter 3 tonight

hello all, tonight we will meet at my place (Ryan's) at 8 o'clock to discuss chapter 3 of the man who was Thursday.

This week: Chapter 2

We'll meet at my apartment this Wednesday (which will probably mean the same as "today" by the time most of you get this) at 8:00 PM to discuss the second chapter of The Man Who Was Thursday: "The Secret of Gabriel Syme."

- Tom

Next Book: The Man Who Was Thursday

The next reading for the Chesterton group will be The Man Who Was Thursday, which can be downloaded using the following links.

• Standard
• Paper-saving
• E-book