Christ in us...

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[A modern bus coming down Headington Hill] The odd thing was that before God closed in on me, I was in fact offered what now appears a m...

"... you can't paint fizzing light, can you?"

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I am more shaky than usual this year. The North Polar Bear’s fault! It was the biggest bang in the world, and the most monstrous firework...

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 st...

Nature's depravity

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So much for Nature's imperfection; her positive depravity calls for a very different explanation. According to the Christians this i...

Jack, in a hat

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Now there are many stories about this famous hat, and Major (Warnie) Lewis recalls one of them in his Memoir prefacing the Letters. He wr...

John Wain's description of the Inklings

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"This was a circle of instigators, almost of incendiaries, meeting to urge one another on in the task of redirecting the whole curre...

The Scientist Takes Over

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A review of C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength (1945)  by George Orwell  On the whole, novels are better when there are no mira...

Drink...

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A C.S. Lewis story:  Jack and a friend were walking down a street in Oxford and passed by a beggar.  Lewis reached in his pocket and gav...

Betjeman and Lewis

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'Life was luncheons, luncheons all the way', Betjeman wrote, not quite accurately, because he was also an active member of the Univ...

Warnie on the death of Charles Williams

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Tuesday 15th May, 1945 At 12.50 this morning I had just stopped work on the details of the  Boisleve family, when the telephone rang,...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (10-1)

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The final page devoted to the important publication of "The Third Inkling".  In November, normal 'Inklings' service wil...

Charles Williams biography (click here)

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Just a fortnight away from the launch of Grevel Lindop's new Charles Williams biography.  Author Grevel Lindop discusses the shadowy f...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (20-11)

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Number of days to the launch of  'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling" Researched and written by Grevel Lindop You can pre-order ...

The Third Inkling - Video (Click here)

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Charles Williams: Oxford’s lost poetry professor It was strikingly appropriate that Sir Geoffrey Hill should have focused his final lect...

The Third Inkling - 1st Review

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Just seen 1st review of Charles Williams ('gripping - I read it cover to cover in 30 hrs - had to eat & sleep') Click on the...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (30-21)

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Number of days to the launch of  'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling" Researched and written by Grevel Lindop You can pre-order ...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (40-31)

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Number of days to the launch of  'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling" Researched and written by Grevel Lindop You can pre-order ...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (50-41)

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Number of days to the launch of  'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling" Researched and written by Grevel Lindop You can pre-order ...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (60-51)

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Number of days to the launch of  'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling" Researched and written by Grevel Lindop You can pre-order ...

100 things you never knew about Charles Williams in 100 days (70-61)

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Number of days to the launch of  'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling" Researched and written by Grevel Lindop You can pre-orde...