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Join Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski, hosts of the UncommonSense Podcast, and Susan Sucher, our Local Societies Coordinator, and other special guests as we read our way through the exciting new Word on Fire edition of Chesterton’s masterpiece, The Everlasting Man, annotated and with commentary by our own Dale Ahlquist.
This weekly conversation resumes Wednesday, August 7th at 7PM CST/8PM EST, and continues through the end of September as we finish our deep dive into this classic at a manageable pace. Live broadcasts mean that your questions and comments can be addressed in real time, as you participate through YouTube chat!
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Schedule
Recordings of prior meetings can be viewed at the bottom of this page.
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AUGUST 2024
August 7, 2024 – Introduction to Part II
Join our Book Club Team for a kickoff of Part II, looking back at where we’ve been and ahead to where we are going.
Reading: Matthew 1:18 – 2:22.
August 14, 2024 – “Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet.”
Dr. Ken Steorts and Steve McIntyre join Joe Grabowski and Grettelyn Darkey to look at “the end of mythology” and the new “Man in the Cave”.
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘The God in the Cave’ (Chapter 1) pp. 279-310.
August 21, 2024 – “The merely human Christ is a made-up figure.”
Dr. Joshua Russell joins Susan Sucher and Grettelyn Darkey for a fresh look, in Chesterton’s signature paradoxical style, at the man, Jesus Christ, and at what New Testament critics get wrong about Him.
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘The Riddles of the Gospel,’ (Chapter 2) pp. 311-334.
August 28, 2024 – “The world could not save itself. Man could do no more.”
Tim Streiff joins the team as we follow Chesterton in considering Christ on His own terms. There are only three ways we can take Christ’s claim… an argument many will find familiar.
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘The Strangest Story in the World,’ (Chapter 3) pp. 335-362.
SEPTEMBER 2024
September 4, 2024 – “The creed was like a key…. It opened the door.”
The Church was not a social movement. She was always a Church, laying claim to Truth. And so She was attacked with lies. Legendary Chestertonian Deacon Tom Martin joins us to discuss how the Church’s enemies attest to Her identity.
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘The Witness of the Heretics,’ (Chapter 4) pp. 363-395.
September 11, 2024 – “The most liberal part of theology is the dogmatic part.”
Rita Bartell Drum joins Susan and Grettelyn to discuss the adventure of the Church on the march, conquering natural religion with supernatural grace.
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘The Escape from Paganism’ (Chapter 5) pp. 396-425.
September 18, 2024 – “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
Greg Pyne joins us as we follow through history the many deaths and the continuous life of the religion whose God knows the way out of the grave.
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘The Five Deaths of the Faith’ (Chapter 6) pp. 426-453.
September 25, 2024 – Conclusion
We wrap up our reading of The Everlasting Man, but the discussion will surely continue long into the future!
Reading: The Everlasting Man, ‘Conclusion’ & Appendices pp. 454-480.
Previous Meeting Recordings
MEETING RECORDINGS
May 22, 2024 - Chapter 2: Professors and Prehistoric Men | The Everlasting Man Online Book Club
1:01:46
May 29, 2024 - Chapter 3: The Antiquity of Civilisation | The Everlasting Man Online Book Club
1:00:57
June 5, 2024 - Chapter 4: God and Comparative Religion | The Everlasting Man Online Book Club
1:04:50
June 26, 2024 - Chapter 6: The Demons and the Philosophers | The Everlasting Man Online Book Club
1:08:14
July 10, 2024 - Chapter 7: The War of the Gods and Demons | The Everlasting Man Online Book Club
1:04:49
Aug. 28, 2024 - Pt. II, Ch. 3: The Strangest Story in the World | Everlasting Man Online Book Club
1:06:49
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.