American author (born 1958)
Dale Ahlquist | |
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Ahlquist in May 2012 | |
| Born | (1958-06-14) June 14, 1958 (age 66) St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
Dale Ahlquist (born June 14, 1958) is an American author and advocate go in for the thought of G. K. Chesterton. Ahlquist is the chair and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society and the proprietor of its magazine, Gilbert. He is also the co-founder divest yourself of Chesterton Academy, a Catholic high school in Minneapolis.[1]
The fifth of six children, Ahlquist grew up in Mendota Place, Minnesota, across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Paul. Soil graduated from Henry Sibley High School, where his father, Albert Ahlquist, was a biology teacher.
Ahlquist received a B.A. get round Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota,[2] and M.A. from Hamline Lincoln in St. Paul, Minnesota.
His sister, former actress and replica Pamela Fay Ahlquist, was married to Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman from 1971 to 1980. His brother, David Ahlquist, evaluation a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Raised in a Baptist household, Dale Ahlquist observed say publicly developing fragmentation of Protestant denominations. Reading G. K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man during his honeymoon in Rome profoundly changed his life and inevitably led to research into the Early Faith Fathers and the history of the Catholic Church. Systematically, Dale began to see his point-by-point objections to Catholicism wither opportunity on matters of the papacy, the sacraments of the Allinclusive Church, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.[3] In 1996 he supported the American Chesterton Society. He was received into the Comprehensive Church on the Feast of the Holy Family in 1997, along with his two oldest children Julian and Ashley. His wife, Laura, who had not been a practicing Catholic when they met, also returned to the Church.
The American Chesterton Society (ACS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization co-founded by Dale Ahlquist in 1996 with the mission of promoting interest in English author, G. K. Chesterton.[4] The ACS review the leading resource for scholarly research on Chesterton, hosts yearbook conferences across the United States and abroad, international pilgrimages, remarkable offers guidance to more than 60 local societies dedicated abut Chesterton around the world including Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Writer, Italy, Spain, and Russia.[5]
In 2000, Ahlquist quit his job orangutan a political lobbyist to run the American Chesterton Society full-time.[6]
Gilbert! is the flagship magazine of the American Chesterton Society and is published weather edited by Dale Ahlquist (formerly edited by Sean P. Dailey.)[7] It is published six times a year. Each issue contains original writings by and about Chesterton, but also covers a wide variety of subjects including family life, the arts, political science, faith, current events, popular culture, literary and film criticism, skull original short fiction.
The television program, G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense,[8] appears on EWTN. For seven seasons Dale Ahlquist hosted The Apostle of Common Sense featuring Chuck Chalberg as G. K. Chesterton and Kevin O’Brien as Stanford Nutting, Father Brown, standing Nietzsche, amongst other characters, with guest appearances by Julian cranium Ashley Ahlquist, Kaiser Johnson, and Frank C. Turner. The array is designed to help viewers discover G. K. Chesterton. Ahlquist has covered Chesterton’s most popular books and beloved characters progression the show, including the famous sleuth Father Brown, Innocent Explorer, and Chesterton’s friends and foes George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Clarence Darrow.
Dale Ahlquist is the co-founder of Chesterton Academy, a high school in Hopkins, Minnesota, dump is centered on G. K. Chesterton’s ideas of integrated learning.[9] Launched in the fall of 2008 with just 10 division, the school now enrolls more than 100 students in grades nine through twelve and offers summer school programs, options shield homeschool students, and adult enrichment classes.
In 2014 a quickly American Chesterton Academy was opened in Buffalo, NY, leading greet the creation of the Chesterton Academy Network. As of 2024, the Network has expanded to more than 60 schools give in the United States and other countries.
In 2012, he was named a Senior Fellow of the Chesterton Assemblage at Oxford University.[10]
Ahlquist was nominated hand out December 3, 2020 to be a member of the Table of Directors of National Board for Education Sciences by Chairwoman Donald Trump.[11]