The Nevada Chesterton Society

About Us

The Nevada Chesterton Society is a “set of highly well-intentioned young jackasses”. This is a title that our patron unwittingly gave to all Chestertonians when he penned it over 100 years ago, but you don't have to be young in fact to join; just in spirit. I think the man would have been surprised to know there would be societies dedicated to him years after his death. He probably didn’t consider himself worthy of such devotion, but we have stumbled across his works and found that “it is Good” and with a fanatical enthusiasm have decided that everyone should know this man. I am referring of course to the great 300 lbs philosophizing Roman Catholic Journalist, whom you never heard of, G.K. Chesterton. We can forgive you for not having heard of him. You really should have heard something by him, something about him or at least something against him, but alas that enormous figure has not diminished, but rather dissolved in our fogy modern minds. His influences are every where, from Gandhi to Michael Collins, from T.S. Elliot to George Orwell. He walked in a time of literary and political giants. In that court, he played sometimes the fool, sometimes the King, but always the sage. Most admired him, some rebuked him, and some trembled at the thought of him, but they all knew him. Like the Old Religion he served, he was a figure that you could not merely be dispassionate about. So we cordially invite you to come participate. Come to love or hate him, but come to know him.

The Nevada Chesterton Society holds regular book discussions on a monthly basis. We also host talks and forums, poetry reading, plays, all things Chestertonian. We usually meet in a pub or a restaurant; someplace convivial. No matter who you are, where you’re from or what you think you are most welcome to come participate. Refer to this site regularly for information on upcoming events. And visit the site of The American Chesterton Society for an abundance of material from G.K. Chesterton.

Contact Sharon Parker at 775-688-3021 or at dolcevita30@yahoo.com for more information.

November Meeting Information:

Please join the Nevada Chesterton Society and special guest Dale Ahlquist for our November meeting at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at Walden’s Coffeehouse, 3940 Mayberry Drive, Reno (at the corner of Mayberry and McCarran).

We will discuss three short works: “The Bluff of the Big Shops” (a chapter of GKC’s Outline of Sanity), available at http://www.distributist.blogspot.com/2007/02/gk-speaks-bluff-of-big-shops.html, plus two introductory essays about Chesterton’s economics: “The Outline of Sanity” by Dale Ahlquist, available at http://www.distributist.blogspot.com and “GKC and Dorothy Day”, a June 2001 talk at the American Chesterton Society Conference, available at http://www.cjd.org/paper/roots/rchest.html.

Dale Ahlquist will also be speaking to the Catholic Business & Professional Group at 7:00 a.m. Thursday, November 13 at the Silver Legacy on Chesterton and Economics, Business and the Workplace. Please see http://catholicprofessionals.org/ for more information.

Posted on: Friday, October 10, 2008

1 Comments:

Richard Aleman said...: Thank you all for including a link to my site. I have done the same, and I have let my readers know they should attend Dale's lecture.

Are you guys recording it?

Anyway, here is the link to the post.

http://distributist.blogspot.com/2008/11/distributist-in-reno.html; 7:25 AM