CS Lewis and The Inklings ‘Ideas’ with CBC

As part of the commemorations for Cs Lewis’s ‘Jubilee’ year the Canadian Broadcasting Company have commissioned two in depth programmes on CS Lewis and the Inklings for their Flagship ‘Ideas’ series. I was happy to be involved with Frank Faulk in this endeavour and did an extensive interview with him, some of which is used in this first programme and most of which will be in the second one, to be broadcast on the 17th to which I will post a link next week. I was impressed by the research he has done for this programme and the range of people he has speaking on it. Two good results of that research are first that he is not content with second hand cliches about Lewis but goes out of his way to scotch falsehoods, and secondly that he gives due weight to the neglected ‘other inklings’ beyond Lewis and Tolkien, and particularly gives the much-neglected Owen Barfield who is allowed at last to come into hi own. Finally, Faulk has, in my view rightly, identified Imagination, and the truth of Imagination as the key to the whole ‘Inklings endeavour.

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I'm On Aslan's Side...

Lewis and Tolkien: Two Worlds In One

Do you love Frodo or have Narnia posters cluttering you room? Perhaps if you are an mother or father, your children talk about Lucy Pevensie and the wizard Gandalf every day.

Do you even know that the athours of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings were friends?

Colin Duriez’s book, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship, talks about the friendship of Clive Staples Lewis and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

They met at Oxford, and became friends even before they were famous. These two writers needed friends, and so they became friends who had many things in common.For example, they were both part of The Inklings, an Oxford group of writers.

C.S. Lewis said, "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one." Really, this is how he and Tolkien became friends.

Hampshire Regional to present ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’

NARNIA play : Hampshire Regional High School will open its drama season with a production of “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” Oct. 25-27 in the high school auditorium.

The play is based on the first of C.S. Lewis’ popular Narnia books. Produced in collaboration with local theater artists, the play will include stage combat and puppets aimed at bringing Lewis’ magical world to life. The plot revolves around siblings sent to live in the English countryside during World War II who discover a portal to another world through an old wardrobe.

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To Get The Best Out Of Our Life

Think of it - 100 years or, most likely, less, here on earth. Then the billions or trillions and more in Heaven. Why don't you do good now, and then leave the 99999999999/100000000000 of your life, and more, for enjoyment? Of course, you can always spend the little time you have on earth in happiness, and spend billions and trillions+ in Hell, burning in agony.... but I wouldn't, really. Just wait, and do good - you'll have happiness sometime! It's not long until then, look how the years fly!

C.S. Lewis's Joy in Marriage

Throughout this memoir of a short but intensely happy marriage, he recalls Joy—referred to as "H."—as a woman whose strength, faith, honesty, humor, and loyalty made her the best of companions, and brought out the best in him.

McGrath objects to what he sees as our culture's "romanticised reading" of Lewis's marriage, spurred by the 1993 movie Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. McGrath seems intent on debunking that image—even though, according to those who knew them closely, the marriage was romantic before Hollywood ever got hold of it. McGrath finds the circumstances of Lewis's marriage not quite to his taste, but it's not Lewis himself that he blames for them.

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Born to be wild: Christians should be ‘good, not tame’

"Christians should not be tame, but good", said Dr. Ralph Wood, professor of theology and literature.

Tuesday at the fourth annual Drumwright Family Lecture, the Alexander reading room was full as faculty, staff and students came to hear Wood speak.

Wood has studied the works and life of C.S. Lewis for a vast majority of his life, and he said he came to the conclusion that Christians are called to be good but not tame through theosis. Theosis is the idea that people are here on this earth to be a part of God’s bigger plan.

“C.S. Lewis has influenced more thoughtful people than anyone else in the late 19th and early 20th century,” Wood said.












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Demolition fears for CS Lewis' old house

A former home of C.S. Lewis has been put up for sale, sparking fears from locals and campaigners that it could be torn down.

14 Holyoake Road, known as ‘Hillsboro’ and owned by Yatsden Limited, has now been put up for sale for £1.6 million as land for potential re-development by estate agents Elwood and Company and Strutt and Parker.

Strutt and Parker’s website claims that the property is “a prime re-development opportunity” and that it “offers huge potential”. But concern has grown among locals and C.S. Lewis experts, including Ronald Brind, who has written e-books about the author and run C.S. Lewis themed tours of Oxford, that the house may be knocked down and replaced.

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Life Is Not About Ourselves

A recent letter writer believes: "There is no dignity in dying a slow, painful, death." On the other hand: "Pain is God's microphone to a deaf world." (C.S. Lewis) Life is not about ourselves. Never was, never will be — just ask any parent. So, why should the terminally ill reject assisted-suicide? The answer: because a person who perseveres in their condition, at some deep level, gives us a precious gift, namely, depth and character. Choosing otherwise signals we no longer understand this.

Baylor Honors College Presents Fourth Annual Drumwright Family Lecture

WACO, Texas - In recognition of the 50th anniversary of author C.S. Lewis' death, the Baylor Honors College will welcome Ralph Wood, Ph.D., to speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 in Alexander Hall.

Wood, University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor, will present his lecture titled "C.S. Lewis on Theosis: Why Christians Are Not Meant to Be Tame but Good."



The lecture will focus on the differences of being good and tame in the Christian faith.


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