Job – Part 2

A reflection on the Book of Job, delivered at the 2018 Chesterton Conference in Rochester, New York. Download MP3 (20:55; 17M)

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Job – Part 1

A reflection on the Book of Job, delivered at the 2018 Chesterton Conference in Rochester, New York. Download MP3 (20:24; 17M)

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Dale Ahlquist on the Apocalyptic Conflagration

From the Rochester NY Chesterton Society’s 8th Annual Conference, Dale Ahlquist (President, American Chesterton Society) talks about the end of the world and how it factors into the world that God has created, a world of justice and peace, and a world that will undergo a revolution to conform it to God’s plan. We must…

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Kevin O’Brien as Hilaire Belloc

In this recording from the 2011 Rochester NY Chesterton Conference, Hilaire Belloc (played by Kevin O’Brien) takes a sweeping overview of Christian history with a look at what he conceptualized as the five major heresies. Arianism, one of the earliest great heresies, claims that Jesus was not God but a creature. St. Athanasius and some…

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Wonder’s Role in Faith

This was recorded at the 2009 Rochester Chesterton Society Conference. It is very easy to allow ourselves to experience wonder on a purely intellectual basis, which misses the point, since wonder is too powerful to be experienced merely through the intellect. We should wonder at some of the amazing things written in the Scriptures and…

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Tom Howard on Wonder

This was recorded at the 2009 Rochester Chesterton Society Conference. As we grow older, we lose our grasp on a sense of wonder in the world. Wonder is modulated by time and repetition, but there are three cases unaffected by time: youth, art and eternity, and it is by studying these three cases where we…

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The Conversion of Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce was born the son of a fierce anti-Catholic in the late 1960s. Hear the story of how God’s grace carried a young, uneducated "agnostic Protestant bigot" who was "racist to the core" into the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church. Now a professor of English Literature at Ave Maria University and…

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The Conversion of St. Augustine

Dr. RJ Stansbury’s talk from the 2007 Chesterton Conference discusses the crucial role that monasticism played in the conversion of St. Augustine. Download MP3 (57:06; 26 MB)

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The Conversion of St. Paul

On October 6th, 2007 the Rochester, NY Chesterton Society held their annual conference, entitled "Conversion of Heart". David Higbee opened the day with this talk on the conversion of St. Paul. Download MP3 (41:05; 18 MB)

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