Dear Chestertonian friends,
I have great pleasure in informing you that The Chesterton Society originally founded in 1974 at Top Meadow, Beaconsfield, is back in action.
Dr William Oddie, the new chairman has hit the ground running and started things with a smart new website we can be proud of.
Chesterton in the Chilterns which was always really a local group/branch of the Society however continued to flourish, and as Dale Ahlquist of the American Chesterton Society said, -
"kept the GKC torch burning in the British Isles".
I would urge British Chestertonians to please join the Society and give her every support; check out the website and take part in the Blog. I am going to leave a message of congratulations and provide a link for our own Chesterton in the Chilterns. We will have the opportunity to post our notices on this site and Dr. Oddie has agreed to allow us to have a page of our own.
Happy times ahead!
- See note on a GKC Conference July 4th.
Best Regards
Martin Thompson
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, March 16, 2007
Confirmed: Rowling is a Chestertonian
We've talked back and forth here for some time about Harry Potter. And people have claimed that she writes very Chestertonianly, but without direct proof. Now we have proof.
A few days ago, someone was defending Joanne Rowling on a message board I belong to. This person stated that if we could judge a person by the company she keeps, then judge Rowling by this: Her favorite poem is one of Belloc's. Her favorite painting is a Caravaggio--Supper at Emmaus. She quotes Dorothy Sayers, and, according to this source, was a member of the UK Chestertonian group.
This last little tidbit caught my immediate attention. So I emailed a US Chestertonian who emailed a UK Chestertonian, who was privy to rosters of members, and this person said that when he inherited the roster, Joanne Rowling's name WAS ON IT. Since then, they haven't been able to contact her for her renewal, but she may still consider herself a member, and in any case, she *was* on the roster, and therefore, she *is* a Chestertonian in my book.
So, there you have it. Now we will invite her to come to a ChesterCon in the future, and tell us all about her connections to Chesterton. You heard it here first, folks!
UPDATE: Roving Medievalist reminded me that he predicted a Rowling/Catholic connection a while ago.
A few days ago, someone was defending Joanne Rowling on a message board I belong to. This person stated that if we could judge a person by the company she keeps, then judge Rowling by this: Her favorite poem is one of Belloc's. Her favorite painting is a Caravaggio--Supper at Emmaus. She quotes Dorothy Sayers, and, according to this source, was a member of the UK Chestertonian group.
This last little tidbit caught my immediate attention. So I emailed a US Chestertonian who emailed a UK Chestertonian, who was privy to rosters of members, and this person said that when he inherited the roster, Joanne Rowling's name WAS ON IT. Since then, they haven't been able to contact her for her renewal, but she may still consider herself a member, and in any case, she *was* on the roster, and therefore, she *is* a Chestertonian in my book.
So, there you have it. Now we will invite her to come to a ChesterCon in the future, and tell us all about her connections to Chesterton. You heard it here first, folks!
UPDATE: Roving Medievalist reminded me that he predicted a Rowling/Catholic connection a while ago.
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