Faith, Fiction, Friends

The Joy of Baseball – Daniel Darling at One Little Word.  Know your rights as an author and don’t get scammed  – Nathan Bransford.   Submerg...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work – It Intensifies It – Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye at  Harvard Business Review .  Grief Goes Hand in Hand w...

It’s May 1938. Four friends embark upon a spring walk, something various members of their group usually do. This time, since the tradition i...

Once upon a wardrobe, not very long ago and not very far away…   That phrase, which sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale, is the center...

It was a Facebook post that did it. A fellow book lover recommended  The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolk...

Thou shalt not pray? – Lois McLatchie at The Critic Magazine.  What Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Talk About  – Douglas Murray at The Free ...

The university city of Oxford will likely forever be linked with two authors – C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. It was where they studied as u...

In December 1939, C.S. Lewis preached a sermon at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford. Entitled “Learning in Wartime,” he addressed ...

C.S. Lewis   was many things – writer, speaker, broadcaster, popular theologian, prolific letter writer, and Oxford (and Cambridge) professo...

We know   C.S. Lewis   as a popular theologian, a writer of children’s stories like   The Chronicles of Narnia   and science fiction stories...

It may sound like a kind of heresy, but I read Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) before I read C.S. Lewis (1898-1963). In the 1970s, there was a re...

During World War II, C.S. Lewis gave three related lectures at Durham University. The three were entitled “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” a...

In 1919, the English publisher William Heinemann released a volume of poetry entitled  Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics . The collectio...

I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s  The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  in the late 1960s, using what I didn’t know were pirated edition...