Oxford Centenary Stone

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'Magdalen College Chapel was packed to overflowing for a special Evensong on May 13th 1998, prior to the unveiling of the Lewis stone in...

The inaccuracy of Shadowlands

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On Saturday 3 October 1997 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a new adaption of Shadowlands for radio with Michael Williams as Jack and Zoe Wanamaker as ...
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“He restored substitution and co-inherence everywhere”

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At the beginning of life in the natural order is an act of substitution and co-inherence. A man can have no child unless his seed is receive...

A Review

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The Novels of Charles Williams (Thomas Howard, Ignatius Press, 1983) Originally published by Oxford University Press What Beatrice was...

Williams on 'Exchange'

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Charles talked and wrote a great deal about the practice of "exchange". It was one of the root rules of the Company. One made a pa...

Arthur C Clarke & C.S. Lewis

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In 1956 Clarke moved to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to pursue his hobby of scuba diving. That's the year when C.S. Lewis told Kathryn Lindskoog ...

Why did Sauron create the One Ring...

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... and What Were Its Powers? It was part of Sauron's scheme to ensnare and enslave the users of all the rings of power and so contro...

The C.S. Lewis Petition

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We the undersigned are concerned about the apparent irregularities in the posthumous C.S. Lewis canon, first investigated in a computer stud...

The C.S. Lewis Hoax

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When THE C. S. LEWIS HOAX was published in 1988 it immediately aroused a tumult of praise and protest. Five Stars The WEST COAST REVIE...

What do the Inklings have to teach us today?

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Above all, and by example, it is the strength and beneficent power of the human spirit. Here we have... very different men, each with his o...

The Novels of Charles Williams

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If you've ever had deja vu, or thought of someone and they call on the telephone at that moment, then you have already experienced what...

The Trilemma

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' ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to ...

Tolkien on Marriage

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"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a littl...

The Good News...

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According to J.R.R. Tolkien “I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story... it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) ...
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Forward to “Essays presented to Charles Williams”, by C.S. Lewis

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"In this book the reader is offered the work of one professional author, two dons, a solicitor, a friar, and a retired army officer; if...
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Announcing "The Proverbs of Middle Earth" by David Rowe

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With permission from both the author and the publisher, over  the next 3 months, I shall be posting a regular weekly excerpt from the boo...

Owen Barfield by Walter Hooper

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After reading "Light on C.S.Lewis" (1965) Professor J.R.R.Tolkien told me he thought Owen Barfield’s Introduction threw more light...

Tolkien to his son Christopher (extract)

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10 April 1944 I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the present moment: the mil...
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Tolkien on the Rings of Power

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Just why were they created? The reason is tied to the regret the Elves had for the passage of time. The Elves were immortal and were fated...

Barfield on Lewis

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Barfield compared arguing with Lewis to “wielding a peashooter against a howitzer... It must be understood that rational opposition is not q...