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Tag Archives: CS Lewis
Brothers and Friends
Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis© 1981 Warren Lewis, ed. Clyde S. Kilby and Marjorie Mead301 pages Reading of C.S. Lewis’ life and letters, I often encounter his brother Warnie Lewis, and regard him with complete … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged Britain, C.S.Lewis, CS Lewis, Inklings, letters and diaries
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Once Upon a Wardrobe
Once Upon a Wardrobe© 2021 Patti Callahan 311 pages Once Upon a Wardrobe takes us to Oxford, 1950, where a young woman named Megs nervously approaches a tutor of English, C.S. Lewis, and asks: where did Narnia come from? She … Continue reading
The Reading Life
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds through Others’ Eyes © 2019 C.S. Lewis 192 pages One of the reasons I’ve grown so fond of Jack Lewis over the years is that he and I share some of … Continue reading
The Screwtape Letters
In the 1940s, as war waged in Europe, another war raged in England: a struggle for one man’s soul. Advised by his uncle Screwtape, a young demon faced with a new convert to Christianity must work overtime to stifle his … Continue reading
Diabolical fragments: selections from Screwtape
I recently re-read The Screwtape Letters for Advent, and would have posted a review but realized I rather liked the draft review I’d written in 2013 more, so now I’m trying to graft the best of one onto the other, … Continue reading
Wisdom Wednesday: Live despite Death
Recently a friend was kind enough to bring this article to my attention. It’s from C.S. Lewis, written in 1948 to address the growing fears of his contemporaries, who were shaken by the spectre of Hiroshima and unnerved by the … Continue reading
Perelandra
Perelandra© 1943 C.S. Lewis322 pages In Out of the Silent Planet, Dr. Erwin Ransom was kidnapped by two malevolent technologists who thought to offer him as a sacrifice to the ruler of Mars, a planet they were interested in mining … Continue reading
Surprised by Joy
Surprised by Joy© 1955 C.S. Lewis252 pages “When I first read Chesterton, I did not know what I was in for. God is, if I may say it, quite unscrupulous.” Mention the name C.S. Lewis and the image of a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged biography, Britain, C.S.Lewis, Classics and Literary, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, literature, philosophy, religion
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Podcast of the Week: Lewis, Tolkien, and the Great War
This week I’m highlighting #272 of the Art of Manliness podcast, an interview with the author of A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War. This book examines C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’s role in the Great War and delves … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S.Lewis, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Of Boys and Men, Podcast of the Week
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