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The Romance of C.S. Lewis April 16, 2025
S. Lewis (1898–1963) continues to engage and intrigue his multiple audiences, particularly in the realms of popular apologetics and academic literary scholarship. While professional literary scholars acknowledge Lewis for his Preface to Paradise Lost...
Imagining the Divine Drama this Holy Week April 15, 2025
Happy Palm Sunday! This year is special for Christians because all the Christian calendars—Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant—have us celebrating Easter on April 20. Thus, all will be meditating on the passion of Jesus Christ this week—his suffering,...
C. S. Lewis and Progressive Pathology April 08, 2025
“Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, / England hath need of thee, she is a fen / of stagnant waters” begins a famous sonnet by William Wordsworth about the spiritual troubles of two hundred years back. Of course, things seem just as catastr...
Science Fiction with a Soul December 30, 2024
“Rooted as they are in facts of contemporary life, the phantasies of even a second-rate writer of modern Science Fiction are incomparably richer, bolder, and stranger than the Utopian or Millennial imaginings of the past,” Aldous Huxley proclaimed....
'My Dear Hemlock' Reimagines 'The Screwtape Letters' October 16, 2024
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then it’s no surprise that Christian writers want to imitate C.S. Lewis. In My Dear Hemlock, published Oct. 1 by Canon Press, author Tilly Dillehay reimagines Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters for a female aud...
Inklings on the Move September 02, 2024
In recent decades, Tolkien and Lewis have attracted a formidable cohort of scholars and critics. To review two additions to their bibliographies is to notice how far things have come since the days when fashionable criticasters could airily dismiss t...
The World of C.S. Lewis August 26, 2024
It is not wrong to say that America made C.S. Lewis. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters was popular in Britain but was initially rejected by American publishers until Macmillan took a chance on it in 1943. It was a huge success. Macmillan quickl...
