Jupiter, from 'The Planets'

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In February 2003, Revd Dr Michael Ward, Chaplain of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge was reading the section of “The Planets” that deals ...
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Silly Adventure Stories

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Dear Phyllida, Thanks for your most interesting cards. How do you get the gold so good? Whenever I tried to use it, however golden it looked...

C.S. Lewis by Owen Barfield (In Verse)

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[Owen Barfield] A year after Lewis' death, one of the lesser members (to many) of the Inklings, Owen Barfield, memorialised his friend...

Charles Williams in "Looking for the King" (II)

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"What is this Holy Grail we hear so much about?" asked Williams, pacing back and forth so rapidly that Tom could hear keys or coin...

Charles Williams from "Looking for the King" (I)

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"Tom crossed the quad, following others through a large wooden door and into a narrow passageway that led to the Divinity School. Emerg...

To Charles Williams

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Your death blows a strange bugle call, friend, and all is hard To see plainly or record truly. The new light imposes change, Re-adjusts all ...

Under the Mercy

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The grave of Charles Williams in Holywell Cemetery (also known as St. Cross Churchyard), Oxford is marked by a stone bearing his name and th...
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Looking for the King - A Review

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A classic tale of how not to amalgamate two books. The first a thriller set in 1940s England, visiting some of the key Authurian sites searc...
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'Looking for the King' - first thoughts

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Ignatius Press is based in California, David C. Downing is an English professor in Pennsylvania, and the English used in ‘Looking for the Ki...
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Looking for the King

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It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old aspiring doctoral candidate, is in England researching the historical evidence for the le...

'What the Bird Said Early in the Year'

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I heard in Addison’s Walk a bird sing clear: This year the summer will come true. This year. This year. Winds will not strip the blossom fro...

An Addison's controversy?

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The monument described below by Rev. Dr. Michael Ward might make "What the Bird Said Early in the Year" Lewis's most famous p...
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Why is Addison's Walk so famous?

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Just before 3 am on the Sunday morning of the 20th September, 1931 J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and another friend, Hugo Dyson, took a stroll ...

A note on Addison's Walk

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Addison's Walk (originally called Water Walk) is a picturesque footpath around a small island in the River Cherwell in the grounds of Ma...
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The Lewis 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 Father Christmas letters

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Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strang...

Pattern

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[Image - Eddie Bairstow] Some believe the slumber Of trees is in December When timber's naked under sky And squirrel keeps his chamber....

Born to write?

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I am sure that some are born to write as trees are born to bear leaves: for these, writing is a necessary mode of their own development. If ...
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Mere Theology (II)

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While we are on the subject of 'Mere Theology', mention must be made of Will Vaus's book of the same name, but much more intimat...

Mere Theology

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From my post on the 1st December: "And now the world has changed. Could we imagine a book called "Mere Christianity" having s...