Mr. Jack Jezreel

Jack Jezreel holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Religion from Furman University summa cum laude and a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame. He spent six years in a Catholic Worker community, providing basic and emergency services to the homeless in Colorado before directing his attention to transformative education, mostly focused on how to encourage people of Catholic background to be engaged in outreach and social change. Jack has over twenty years of experience working in parish ministry and spent eight of those years at a Catholic parish in Louisville, KY developing a conversion-based justice formation program, JustFaith, which has had extraordinary results and has been recognized nationally as a potent strategy for empowering social ministry. In 1995, he was recognized for his work with the Peace and Justice Award from the Archdiocese of Louisville. In February 2006, he received the Harry A. Fagan Award at the Annual Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, DC, for his working in promoting social justice.
    

Msgr. Eugene Morris

A priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Father Morris has served at several parishes in St. Louis and was a full time teacher at St. Mary’s High School. In 1999 Father Morris was invited to pursue further studies at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome. He completed a licentiate in Sacramental Theology in 2001 and returned to St. Louis to begin work at Kenrick Glennon Seminary. He spent two years as the associate director of Cardinal Glennon College and five years as director of worship at Kenrick-Glennon while teaching sacramental/liturgical theology at Kenrick Glennon. Fr. Morris was then designated Episcopal Vicar for and Director of the Office of the Permanent Diaconate of the Archdiocese, Director of the St. Maximilian Kolbe House of Discernment and assistant professor of theology at Kenrick Glennon Seminary. In 2009 Fr. Morris was made a Monsignor and in June was assigned as pastor to Saint Mary Magdalene parish in south Saint Louis.
    

     Dale Ahlquist

President of the American Chesterton Society, Dale Ahlquist gives talks at colleges, high schools and churches. Dale specializes in talks on Chesterton. You name it. Whatever it is, Chesterton had something wonderful and witty to say about it, and Dale is going to put together a great presentation for us to tell us what it was Chesterton said. Dale’s talks on Chesterton have delighted audiences around the country and around the world. He has spoken at Yale, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Villanova, University of Georgia, University of Tulsa, University of Iowa, and many others. He has given talks in England, Australia, Switzerland, and Canada. Dale is the author G.K. Chesterton - The Apostle of Common Sense and Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton. He is also creator and host of the popular "Apostle of Common Sense" televison series on EWTN.