The Inklings and Friends
Oxford, C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien and Friends
C.S.Lewis and the Fruits of Scientism
In his encyclical Fides et Ratio Pope St John Paul II defined scientism as “the philosophical notion which refuses to admit the validity of forms of knowledge other than those of the positive sciences; [...]
What Lucy Saw
In Prince Caspian Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy are drawn from a country railway station in England, to a Narnia that is thousands of years older than when they were there last. (Narnian time, they [...]
C.S.Lewis and Bob Jones Jr
There is a certain ripeness about the American south that breeds larger than life characters. One thinks of the robust and lusty characters in Tennessee Williams, the quiet eccentrics of Walker Percy, the country [...]
Exalting the Strange and Homely
The Baptism of C.S.Lewis’ Imagination In October of 1916, on a train platform bookstall, C.S.Lewis picked up a volume that changed his life. It was Phantastes by George MacDonald. Lewis had been reading The Faerie [...]
Chortling with Chesterton
In England the process has begun for the possible canonization of the portly prophet--G.K.Chesterton. The prolific author has influenced millions with his writings, and the influential people who have fallen under his spell have [...]
Eliot the Anglo American
There are moments in childhood when a window in the mind seems to open and the future is glimpsed. So it was as I lay on my bed at the age of ten or [...]