Life in West Chester PA, with Claire Aguda - The Sower Episode 24 (audio)

Episode 24 • October 03, 2024 • 00:32:25
Life in West Chester PA, with Claire Aguda - The Sower Episode 24 (audio)
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Life in West Chester PA, with Claire Aguda - The Sower Episode 24 (audio)

Oct 03 2024 | 00:32:25

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Show Notes

Claire Aguda and Chris Anadale discuss place, church, and her community in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Claire Aguda works at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. She is currently a PhD student at Faulkner University. She has worked in the conservative intellectual movement for several years. Claire is a longtime friend of the Ciceronian Society, which she describes as the place where "people take their faith seriously, take their work seriously, but they don't take themselves seriously."

0:00 Place, Culture, and Economics

6:25 Inheritance

8:10 Transient Places

11:30 Building Community

14:50 Churches

17:45 West Chester

21:45 Exclusion

27:40 Challenges Facing Localism

One in an occasional series on place, hosted by Christopher Anadale.

To support the Ciceronian Society or learn more about our UPCOMING CONFERENCE at the Hotel Madison in Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 13-15, 2025, please visit https://ciceroniansociety.org/ 

Links:

https://www.faulkner.edu/graduate/graduate-degrees/doctor-of-philosophy-in-humanities/ 

https://kirkcenter.org/scs/  

https://www.greaterwestchester.com/lightsupchristmasparade.html 

 

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