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Host Dale Ahlquist takes you through twelve of Chesterton’s most important books and actor Chuck Chalberg brings Chesterton’s words to life in Season 1. These programs are designed to help viewers discover and rediscover G.K. Chesterton, to be challenged by his ideas, to see the completeness of his thought, and to be treated to the joy and depth of his faith. Truth touches everything. This series contains the following episodes:<\/p>\n

1. An Introduction to G.K. Chesterton
\n2. Orthodoxy
\n3. Heretics
\n4. What’s Wrong with the World
\n5. The Catholic Church and Conversion
\n6. The Thing: Why I am a Catholic
\n7. The Well and the Shallows
\n8. St. Francis of Assisi
\n9. St. Thomas Aquinas
\n10. The Everlasting Man
\n11. The Outline of Sanity
\n12. The Superstition of Divorce
\n13. Eugenics and other Evils
\n14. Chesterton for Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Host Dale Ahlquist takes you through twelve of Chesterton’s most important books and actor Chuck Chalberg brings Chesterton’s words to life in Season 1. These programs are designed to help viewers discover and rediscover G.K. 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