Hey Western Washington!

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society,

We invite you to join us next Thursday evening for our fifth gathering of this season at the Catholic Newman Center of the University of Washington, located at 4502 20th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 7:30 PM, UW Newman Center

Make-Believer:
How Hobbits and “Happily Ever After” Inspire My Faith

Mr. Jeffrey Overstreet
Author and film critic

Voices in Christian media continue to warn us about the dangers of fantasy stories like Twilight, How to Train Your Dragon, The Golden Compass, Avatar, and the Harry Potter stories. But novelist Jeffrey Overstreet goes on fearlessly reading and writing stories about magic and monsters. Are fairy tales and pagan mythology dangerous? Overstreet will share with us what he has learned while exploring fairy-tale wonderlands with the compass of Christian faith. And he will describe the dragons he fought while writing his own four-book fantasy series,The Auralia Thread.

Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of a four-book fantasy series that includesAuralia’s Colors, Cyndere’s Midnight, Raven’s Ladder and The Ale Boy’s Feast(WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group). An award-winning film critic, Jeffrey contributes reviews to ImageJournal.org every month, and has written a “memoir of dangerous moviegoing” called Through a Screen Darkly (Regal Books). He works as a contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University’s Response magazine.

Please see our full Events Calendar for more details pertaining to meetings. Parking at the Newman Center is extremely limited. It is recommended that commuters park in the nearby “N5” lot on the University campus, accessible via the north gate at NE 45th St and Memorial Way. The fee for evening parking in the University lots is $5.00. Campus maps showing the exact location of the N5 lot are available here.

We look forward to seeing you Thursday evening!

Yours faithfully,

The Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society