Invite Dale Ahlquist
Invite Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society, to give a talk at your college, high school, church, or organizational meeting. Dale will give a talk on Chesterton and…well, what would you like? Art? Politics? History? Literature? Philosophy? Faith? You name it. Whatever it is, Chesterton had something wonderful and witty to say about it, and Dale will put together a presentation to tell you what it was Chesterton said.
For more information on inviting Dale Ahlquist, please call 952-831-3096 or email [email protected].
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About Dale Ahlquist
One of the most respected Chesterton scholars in the world, Dale Ahlquist is President of the American Chesterton Society, creator and host of the EWTN series “G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense,” and Publisher of Gilbert Magazine. He is the author of three books on Chesterton including The Complete Thinker, published in the fall of 2012.
An internationally sought-after speaker, Dale has given hundreds of lectures at major colleges and universities and other venues, including Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Oxford, Cal-Berkeley, Cal-Tech, Rice, Penn, Dartmouth, San Pablo (Madrid), the Vatican Forum in Rome, and the House of Lords in London. He is a Fellow of the Veritas Institute at Oklahoma Wesleyan University was recently named Senior Fellow of the Chesterton Library at Oxford University.
Dale has made Chesterton once again a recognized and revered 20th Century Catholic literary figure. In his first book, The Apostle of Common Sense (Ignatius), a bestseller, he takes the reader through 12 of Chesterton’s most important works as well as the famous Father Brown detective series. In his book, Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton, Ahlquist takes a thematic approach, presenting a Chestertonian perspective of such topics as wonder, paradox, art, education, history, science, fashion, faith, love and marriage. In his latest book, The Complete Thinker, Dale looks to the wisdom of Chesterton to explain why modern man has lost his ability to think clearly.
Dale Ahlquist speaks on a range of topics including:
Defending the Faith
Defending the Family
Restoration of Education
Politics and Economics