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Changing Views of the World: Lewis and Barfield

As discussed in an earlier blog entry, C. S. Lewis’s last book, The Discarded Image, introduces modern readers to the now-largely-lost...

There’s a strand running through Lewis which observers and critics put down to his Christianity but which can be seen in other terms, at...

Education and aesthetics are bound together in mysterious ways, it seems. But how exactly? What do people mean when they talk about an...

Though it will probably be common knowledge to you reading this, it came as a strange shock to me when, during my early teens, I...

'Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”' 'Friendship...

Here are 14 facts about C. S. Lewis that you may or may not have known: 1. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on 29...

Voyage to Venus or Perelandra as it was originally called, provides in its opening chapter a perfect example of an author progressing...

On a clear, starlit night, go outside and look at the stars. Try to imagine what it was like looking up at the night sky in Mediaeval...

In class at school, in 1971, I sat next to a girl I’d never spoken to and had no real intention of getting to know. During a reading...

In 1975, my English teacher, one Mr. Sweeting, came up with the idea of a reading list from which we (his unforgiving class of...