The Smile of Beauty: Heavenly Apologetics
By Megan Robinson, CSLewis Review, Associate Editor “It was when I was happiest that I longed most. It was on happy days when we were up there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and the...
View Article2015-16 C. S. Lewis Seminars with Bruce Edwards
I am pleased to announce four new seminars are available for scheduling in 2015-16: Reading the Bible With C. S. Lewis Four Lively Friday-Saturday sessions cover these topics: The Authority of...
View ArticleHow to Honor C. S. Lewis on His 116th Birthday
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards If C. S. Lewis were present today, where I live in Willow, AK, he would be celebrating his 116th birthday, and probably would be up for a brisk walk on this Arctic tundra that...
View ArticleC. S. Lewis’s Great Experiment
A book few readers of C. S. Lewis will ever voluntarily pick up has the unwieldy, even forbidding title, An Experiment in Criticism. The title conceals more than it reveals. An experiment in what? And...
View ArticleSunrise, Sunset: A [Puddleglum] Palm Sunday Meditation
John 11:11-16 Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Sunday, March 29, 2015 Puddleglum on Palm Sunday It’s Palm Sunday, and we want to be respectful of the church calendar and its momentum towards Easter, so our...
View ArticleJack the Blogger
Our continued affection for and the extended appeal of C. S. Lewis more than 52 years after his death, now half past the second decade of the supposedly post-postmodern 21st Century, suggests to me...
View ArticleC. S. Lewis on Language
C. S. Lewis saw language as a defining characteristic of what it means to be made in the image of God. We possess the gift of speech from a verbal Creator—the God of the Bible speaks, and his speech is...
View ArticleJack the Counselor
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards (c) 2015. Ask any ten avid readers of C. S. Lewis to describe his vocation and I suspect 9 out of 10 will use one of the following terms: Christian apologist, fantasy/sf writer,...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for Folks Inclined to Forward (Likely) Inaccurate...
Stop. Just Stop. If you love Jack, and you can’t help but express your admiration by posting a Tweet or Facebook post that features someone else’s borrowed post or meme, think twice. If you didn’t find...
View ArticlePrince Caspian: Forward to the Past (or, Learning How to Enjoy a Sequel)
I have never met any dedicated reader of the Chronicles of Narnia who told me that Prince Caspian was her favorite volume. I think I know the reasons why this might be so, and in due course, I will...
View ArticleThe Allure of Gentleness: Apologetics in the Manner of Jesus by Dallas Willard.
The Allure of Gentleness: Apologetics in the Manner of Jesus by Dallas Willard. HarperOne, 2015. 208 pp. Reviewed by J.M. Hawthorne Dallas Willard’s posthumously published book, The Allure of...
View ArticleSmuggling Theology: Out of the Silent Planet
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Sister Penelope, a winsome, lifelong correspondent of C. S. Lewis, had written to him about the provenance of his first space travel adventure, Out of the Silent Planet, a...
View ArticleJack’s Legacy? Timelessness.
By Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Whenever I speak on Lewis, I nearly always am asked to comment on his “legacy.” I realized that I have been talking about Jack’s “legacy,” now, for more than 35 years. The...
View ArticleHitchens’ Last Interview
Richard Dawkins recently made available for the first time online his Christmas 2011 interview with Christopher Hitchens, which was published in the New Statesman, and which Dawkins had guest-edited....
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