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Great Links: Joel Heck’s C.S. Lewis Site
As part of my Great Links occasional feature, Joel Heck’s website is certainly worth highlighting. Dr. Heck is a theology and Bible professor at the Concordia University of Texas and a long time reader...
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A Normal Day in C.S. Lewis’ Life as a Student
Perhaps it is an odd fascination, but I do love reading people’s diaries. Dead people of course. I don’t know what I would do with the inner thoughts of real people in my every day life. It would be...
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A Letter Home to his Papy 100 Years Ago Today
After my Monday post about C.S. Lewis’ diary entry 90 years ago, a reader asked why I didn’t just go the distance and include a letter from 100 years ago. While I’m as much a fan of centenary...
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On Monasticism and New Monasticism
I am posting this from the Gladstone’s library. This is a relatively new library for Wales (the 19th century), and is the Prime Minister’s own library, though he isn’t here at the moment. I am sitting...
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Why I Don’t Think Jesus Was a Soccer Dad…
Or that Mary Magdalene was a redeemer goddess. Or that Christ was an invention by the aristocratic elite to sooth the masses. Or that he never existed. Or that anything is really factual on the page...
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Even on Chairs of Bronze
I was walking from my in-law’s house to work the other day. It is longer than my normal commute by foot, but is no great punishment. Prince Edward Island, when not beset by winter storms that are just...
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Call for Submissions
I have been pleased to have had a blog published at the Fellowship of the King. They have now sent out a call for poetry, short stories, and essays. Check it out! “The Fellowship of The King”...
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Canada and a 6th Century Monk
This is super cool–another Canada Day post for intelligent readers. And another great post from writer, L.A. Smith. I have been fascinated with St. Brendan since I read Frederick Buechner‘s stunning...
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Reading Harry Potter in Oxford
Back in the day, C.S. Lewis thought that industry and suburban sprawl was ruining Oxford. Decades later, industry has slid into the urban background and the suburbs are here to stay. If I had to say...
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A Normal Day in C.S. Lewis’ Life as a Student
Though the halls of Oxford are not yet filled for Michaelmas term, University students and faculty are back to work here in North America. No doubt, students are already concerned about how much they...
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What the Middle Ages and my 11-Year-Old Can Teach us About Diversity
Each year my son and I camp on Prince Edward Island’s heavenly north shore. On one of our hike days we scramble down the red clay rocks to the white sand beaches, hopping over huddles of dry moss as we...
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Diana Butler Bass on C.S. Lewis and the Inklings
The work of C.S. Lewis is not lost on Church historians. Dr. Diana Butler Bass, a student of George Marsden and prominent columnist, author, and American church historian, turns to Lewis and some of...
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Please Vote: “The Outlaw In My Lineage” by Nicolas Dickieson
Charles & Eliza Dickieson–Charles grew a beard to cover a scar on his chin from being truncheoned during the arrest The other day I took my family for a walk around my land. It is just a handful of...
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C.S. Lewis’ Normal and Not-So-Normal Life as a Student
As the cobblestone streets and hallowed halls of Oxford are beginning to fill for Michaelmas term, University students and faculty have been back to work here in North America. As I have a busy...
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Mark Vernon’s “A Secret History of Christianity,” review by Wesley Schantz...
Review of A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness, by Mark Vernon A guest post from Wesley Schantz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars For purposes of...
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