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SUMMARY:A Test of Faith: Surviving Captivity in Syria with Sam Goodwin
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Sam Goodwin’s extraordinary saga of survival\, prayer\, and divine intervention during his captivity in Syria. \nSam Goodwin is an American entrepreneur\, bestselling author and international keynote speaker known for his thought leadership on embracing uncertainty. A former Division I hockey player\, Sam co-founded a tech company and NGO in Singapore and is one of the few people to have traveled to all 193 countries in the world. His recent book\, Saving Sam\, recounts his experience of being taken hostage and wrongfully imprisoned in Syria. \n  \n\n\n \n 
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/sam-goodwin/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Work\, Conversion\, and the Manual Arts with Jacob Imam
DESCRIPTION:How does someone raised in a Muslim household convert to Catholicism? What did the pagans think of manual labor? Why found a Catholic trade school? Join us as New Polity editor Jacob Imam shares his insights on conversion\, work\, and the trades.\n  \n\n\n \nJacob Imam was born into a Muslim home and converted to Catholicism under the guidance of his godfather\, Walter Hooper (C.S. Lewis’s personal secretary). An editor at New Polity\, he graduated from the University of Oxford as a Marshall scholar with his master’s and doctorate\, writing his dissertation on theology and economics. A popular speaker and writer on politics and economics\, Imam has appeared on Pints with Aquinas\, Fox News\, and other media outlets. Imam is the founder and Provost of the College of St. Joseph the Worker\, which combines a Catholic liberal arts education with the practicality of training in a skilled trade. He and his wife\, Alice\, have three young children. \n 
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/work-on-the-manual-arts-and-conversion-with-jacob-imam/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Nolan Unmasked with John Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Has the most influential “Catholic theologian” of our time been hiding in plain sight? Come hear John Johnson’s take on filmmaker Christopher Nolan\, arguably the most cerebral\, complex storyteller working in film today.\n  \n\n\n \nJohn Johnson\, a Catholic husband and father of seven kids (age 10 and under)\, founded Patmos Hosting and the Albertus Magnus Institute (AMI). Patmos was recently recognized as one of Newsweek’s top five tech startups to work for; John credits the success of Patmos to its foundations in first principles including the dignity of the human person\, subsidiarity\, anti-technocracy\, and a pro-family work culture. AMI is an online college alternative that relentlessly promotes and provides traditional\, liberal education to over 1\,000 students. \nJohn has degrees in philosophy and theology from St. Mary’s College and the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. He and his family live on a homestead in the California foothills. \n  \n 
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/nolan-unmasked/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Virtues as Super Habits with Andrew Abela
DESCRIPTION:In this engaging and practical talk\, Dr. Andrew Abela—Dean of the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America—reframes the classical virtues as super habits: uniquely human habits that strengthen our ability to govern our thoughts\, actions\, and feelings. Drawing on insights from philosophy\, psychology\, and everyday experience\, Dr. Abela shows that virtues like gratitude\, honesty\, humility\, and courage are not abstract ideals but trainable “mental muscles” that anyone can develop. Copies of Super Habits (Sophia Press\, 2024) will be available for purchase and signing.\n  \n\n\n \nDr. Andrew Abela is the founding Dean of the Busch School of Business\, Professor of Marketing\, and former Provost of the Catholic University of America. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program. His research has been published in several academic journals and in three books. \nHe is a frequent speaker on business ethics and cultivating virtue in organizations. Prior to his academic career\, Dr. Abela was a brand manager at Procter & Gamble\, management consultant with McKinsey & Company\, and Managing Director at the Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner). He holds an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland and a PhD from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. He and his wife\, Kathleen\, live in Great Falls\, Virginia and have been blessed with six children and two grandchildren.
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/the-virtues-as-super-habits-with-andrew-abela/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Ghost Runner Book Launch with Phil Lawler
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Phil Lawler’s new book\, Ghost Runner\, from Sophia Institute Press. \nOne of America’s most respected Catholic writers and cultural critics\, Lawler bursts onto the fiction scene with a riveting debut novel that plunges readers into the hidden battles of the Church in the 1980s. Lawler exposes beneath the surface of parish life and chancery politics a world of secrets\, compromises\, and spiritual warfare—where the faithful struggle to survive and a young priest discovers that he has a special mission—and powerful enemies. \n \n \n  \n Phil Lawler is editor of Catholic World News\, the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the Internet\, which he founded in 1995. His essays appear regularly on CatholicCulture.org as well as his own Substack. \nMr. Lawler has served as Director of Studies for the Heritage Foundation\, a conservative think-tank based in Washington; as founder and president of a national organization of Catholic laity; and as editor of Crisis magazine. In 1986\, he became the first layman to edit The Pilot\, the Boston archdiocesan newspaper. From 1993 through 2005\, he was editor of the international monthly magazine Catholic World Report. His essays\, book reviews\, and editorial columns have appeared in over 100 newspapers around the United States and abroad\, including the Wall Street Journal\, Los Angeles Times\, Washington Post\, and Boston Globe. Ghost Runner is his first novel. \nHe and his wife Leila (the author of the best-selling Summa Domestica) have seven children and (at last count) twenty-two grandchildren. The Lawlers now live in central Massachusetts.
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/ghost-runner-book-launch-with-phil-lawler/
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SUMMARY:The Dignity of Dependence with Leah Libresco Sargeant
DESCRIPTION:No just society can be built on the foundation of a false anthropology. Our culture makes an idol of autonomy\, which leads to a particular suspicion of women\, children\, and pregnancy—the entangled\, dependent relationship that marks all of our beginnings. In The Dignity of Dependence\, Leah Libresco Sargeant makes the case for a feminism that begins with women’s unique exposure to the needs of another\, and explains how it can help all of us live fruitfully. \n \n\n  \nLeah Libresco Sargeant is the author of The Dignity of Dependence\, as well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. She works on family policy in Washington\, D.C. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere. She runs the Substack Other Feminisms\, focused on advocating for women in a world that makes an idol of autonomy.
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/the-dignity-of-dependence-a-feminist-manifesto-with-leah-libresco-sargeant/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Doctor of the Church and Co-Patron of Education: A Newman Symposium with Robert Royal and Edward Short
DESCRIPTION:In honor of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman being named a Doctor of the Church\, please join us as Robert Royal and Edward Short offer a symposium on this great saint. Robert Royal will speak on “Newman’s Augustinian Heart” and Edward Short on “St. John Henry Newman and St. Thomas Aquinas: A Study in Apologetical Affinity.” \n \n\n  \nRobert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington\, D.C. His most recent books are The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century\, Columbus and the Crisis of the West\, and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century. He was the inaugural John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies at Thomas More College. \n  \nEdward Short is the Executive Director of the Chesterton Academy of Vero Beach and the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy on St John Henry Newman comprised of Newman and his Contemporaries\, Newman and his Family\, and Newman and his Critics. He is also the author of Newman and History and a critical edition of Newman’s Difficulties of Anglicans\, Volume I. Bishop James Massa\, Rector of Saint Joseph’s Seminary in New York hailed Mr. Short’s Newman scholarship as “a gift to the whole Church.” In addition\, Mr. Short is the author of two collections of essays\, Adventures in the Book Pages and What The Bells Sang. Of the latter\, Lord Roberts\, Churchill’s biographer said: “As well as being beautifully written and genuinely brave\, this book is also wise. It is a remarkable testament to the breadth and profundity of the author’s expertise and interests\, and the extraordinary depth of his reading. The polymathic Man of Letters might be a disappearing breed in our civilization\, but Edward Short is holding out. He should be listed\, like a piece of our architectural heritage.” A staunch pro-lifer\, Mr. Short is also the author of Culture and Abortion. His essays and reviews appear regularly in Literary Review\, City Journal\, Catholic World Report\, and The New Criterion. Mr. Short obtained his BA degree cum laude in history and art history at Hunter College in the City University of New York. He lives in Florida and New York with his wife and two young children.
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/doctor-of-the-church-and-co-patron-of-education-a-newman-symposium-with-robert-royal-and-edward-short/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thirteen Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven't Read): Book Discussion with Christopher Scalia
DESCRIPTION:You may have read The Scarlet Letter in high school\, but have you ever read The Blithedale Romance\, Hawthorne’s scathing fictional account of a New England utopian community gone wrong? Or Leif Unger’s lyrical Peace Like a River\, which\, as Scalia argues\, offers profound insights on what it means to be a man? \nCome join us for a “fireside chat” with AEI Senior Fellow Christopher Scalia as he serves up a baker’s dozen of outstanding and often overlooked English and American novels—novels with rich moral\, cultural\, and social lessons for our own troubled times. \n  \n \n  \n \nChristopher J. Scalia is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where he focuses on literature\, culture\, and higher education. \nHis most recent book\, 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read)\, is\, in the words of Russell Kirk Center President (and former Thomas More College President) Jeffrey O. Nelson\, “a reliable guide to younger readers\, suspicious and wearied of politicized works of culture\, exhorting them to reclaim their patrimony by making great literature central to their intellectual formation.” \nA former English professor\, Dr. Scalia specialized in 18th-century and early 19th-century British literature. His articles\, essays\, and reviews on literature\, music\, higher education\, and other topics have appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, USA Today\, National Review\, First Things\, the Times Literary Supplement\, and FoxNews.com\, among other outlets. \nDr. Scalia is the coeditor of On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer (2019) and Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law\, Faith\, and Life Well Lived (2017). \n 
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/thirteen-novels-conservatives-will-love-but-probably-havent-read-book-discussion-with-christopher-scalia/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Gen Z\, Gen Alpha\, and the Future of the Conservative Movement with Kimberly Begg
DESCRIPTION:What happens when the conservative movement speaks a language today’s young people no longer recognize? In this talk\, Kimberly Begg\, president of the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women\, examines how the lived experiences of Gen Z and Gen Alpha differ sharply from those of leaders shaped by twentieth-century events—and why yesterday’s arguments no longer persuade. Drawing on her work with young women across the country\, Begg explores how words like conservative\, freedom\, and truth no longer carry shared meaning for a generation formed by COVID lockdowns\, the rise of transgender ideology\, and a deep mistrust of authorities who demand conformity while denying reality. She argues that today’s young people are both dreamers and realists. They are not interested in fighting their parents’ battles. What they want is to chart their own path rooted in purpose and common sense. Our task is to meet that desire with humility—to earn their trust\, pass on hard-earned wisdom\, and help them build meaningful lives capable of sustaining a free society. \n  \n \n  \nKimberly Begg is president of the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women. An attorney with more than 25 years of experience strengthening conservative causes\, her long history with the Luce Center began in the 1990s when she was a student at Rutgers University. In 1997\, she attended the Luce Center’s College Women’s Luncheon in Washington\, DC and hosted a Luce campus lecture the following year. \nShe has been a regular speaker for the Luce Center since the 2000s and has served on the Center’s board of advisors and board of directors. She is the author of Unbreakable: Saints Who Inspired Saints to Moral Courage (TAN Books) and co-author with Mike Ortner of Catholic School Playbook (Word on Fire). She has served as vice president and general counsel of Young America’s Foundation and director of programs and general counsel of the Ortner Family Foundation. She helped found Young America’s Foundation’s Be Not Afraid seminar (originally\, the Standing Up for Faith and Freedom seminar)\, an annual program for students at Catholic schools\, in 2015. \nFrom 2021 to 2024\, she served as founding editor of Catholic School Playbook\, a website documenting the best practices of thriving Catholic schools. She serves on the board of directors of Young America’s Foundation\, the board of overseers of the Dominican House of Studies\, and the DC board of regents of Thomas Aquinas College. \nShe lives in Herndon\, Virginia\, with her husband\, Ian\, and their five children.
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/gen-z-gen-alpha-and-the-future-of-the-conservative-movement-with-kimberly-begg/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Event: Faith\, Meaning\, and the Catholic Writer with Cy Kellett
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the writing approaches of G.K. Chesterton and Walker Percy\, both of whom answered the confusions of modern life with wit\, insight\, and Christian faith. By considering their response to the modern search for meaning\, we can reflect on what their work still has to say about literature\, belief\, and the calling of the Catholic writer today. \n \n \n\n\n  \nCy Kellett is the host of Catholic Answers Live. He formerly hosted The Bright Side with Cy Kellett on the Immaculate Heart Radio network. Kellett and his wife\, Missy\, have three children. \n  \n  \nImage courtesy of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
URL:https://restorationchristianculture.org/event/g-k-chesterton-and-walker-percy-with-cy-kellett/
LOCATION:Mercy Hall\, 90 Concord St.\, Nashua\, NH\, 03060\, United States
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