The Inklings and Friends
Oxford, C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien and Friends
Looking for Another Country
Nostalgia and Desire in C.S.Lewis and T.S.Eliot There is an open space in the human heart--a void that seeks fulfillment and a hunger that longs for satisfaction. For the progressive this longing looks to [...]
Tolkien’s ‘No’ to Narnia
If I had a time machine that could not only set me down not only in a particular date, but a particular place, I’d choose the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford on a [...]
Lewis in Wartime
When I arrived in Oxford in 1979 to study theology, there lingered in the air a nostalgic whiff of post war England. Coming from the United States with our cars, our cocky confidence, rock [...]
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 [...]
They Stand Together: C.S.Lewis on Male Friendship
Arthur Greeves was a boyhood friend of C.S.Lewis, and the person with whom he exchanged the most prolific correspondence over the years. Lewis said after his brother Warnie, that Greeves was his “oldest and [...]
The Little Way Through Middle Earth
‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ Tolkien admitted that he wrote these words absentmindedly on the back of an exam paper he was marking. Such spontaneous inspiration suggests the work [...]