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A Tribute to a Mentor
No one was more formative to the thinking of the young C.S. Lewis than William Thompson Kirkpatrick. Lovingly dubbed “The Great Knock” by the Lewis family, Kirkpatrick absolutely transformed Lewis’ way...
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What Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Teaches us about English and Education
One of my first posts on A Pilgrim in Narnia was the confession that I had not really ever read John Bunyan’s classic The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678). I’m pretty sure I had pretended to read it. I had...
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Balder the Beautiful Is Dead, Is Dead: C.S. Lewis’ Imaginative Conversion
One day a young C.S. Lewis casually turned to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s death-dirge in the tradition of a northern epic poem, Tegner’s Drapa. He read these words that forever changed him: I heard a...
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The Periods of C.S. Lewis’ Literary Life
Last week I took time to share my “cheat sheet“–a project that began for me on a scrap of paper but slowly grew up into an excel sheet resource that I consult pretty frequently. What I wanted to do was...
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The Shape of the Cross in C.S. Lewis’ Writing: My Oct 23rd Talk at the Oxford...
I’m pleased to announce that I will be giving a talk at the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society next week (Tues, Oct 23rd, 8pm for 8.15pm start at Pusey House). The Society was very kind to fit me in on my short...
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Help Me Find the Accusation of Misogyny in the TIME Article on C.S. Lewis,...
Two recent references have created a bit of a puzzle for me which I hope you can perhaps make clear for me. Both in Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen’s A Sword Between the Sexes: C.S. Lewis and the Gender...
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C.S. Lewis’ Science Fiction with Adam Mattern, David C. Downing, and Brenton...
Last week we had an amazing Thesis Theater event, a great discussion about C.S. Lewis’ WWII-era science fiction trilogy. Recent Signum University MA graduate Adam Mattern was the central figure,...
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