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Event Series: 25th Anniversary Weekend

Date

October 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Location

Chesterton House – 111 and 115 The Knoll

Chesterton House 25th Anniversary Weekend

Dorothy Sayers Faith & Work Conference

Join us for a celebratory weekend and conference on our beautiful campus on the Knoll in Ithaca, New York!

Friday, October 3 – Saturday, October 4, 2025

Featuring: Dorothy Sayers Faith & Work Conference + celebratory meals and events!

Students, Alumni, Friends, and Supporters, we would love to welcome you all to our campus this fall to celebrate God’s faithfulness throughout our 25-year history.

As we look back and celebrate, we will simultaneously look forward and launch what we hope will be a regular Chesterton House program: The Dorothy Sayers Faith & Work Conference.

Register Today

Friday, October 3—Saturday, October 4, 2025
Ithaca, NY

For more info email: partners@chestertonhouse.org

Brief Weekend Overview

Friday, October 3rd
5:00 pm Connect with friends old and new with dinner on the Knoll, featuring Dinosaur BBQ!
*we will dismiss for Friday fellowships at 6:40pm!

Saturday, October 4th – Dorothy Sayers Faith & Work Conference
8:00 am Breakfast, welcome, and interview with Andy Crouch

9:15 am Plenary panel discussion and discipline-specific small groups

12:00 pm Lunch and CLARITAS 10th anniversary gathering

7:30 pm Evening Plenary with Andy Crouch and Mia Chung in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

Dorothy Sayers?
As a scholar, writer, poet, playwright, and translator, Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) taught us with whimsy, wit, and mystery that the whole of our lives is inextricably enmeshed with the Creator. And that as a Church, we must be a people in pursuit of excellence in all ways. Perhaps put best in Sayers’ own words from her renowned essay, Why Work:
“The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables… No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth.”