The Kilns
Brett McCracken Travels for Research on his Book Project about “Christian Hipsters”
Brett McCracken, one of our dear friends and former C.S. Lewis Foundation Intern and Conference Registrar, is currently writing a book about Christian “hipsters” and is taking a research/writing trip to New York City, London, Oxford and Paris, including a short stay at The Kilns as part of the Scholars-in-Residence program. Here’s an excerpt from … Continue reading
More on the Worth of the Humanities
Several weeks ago, we posted an article from the New York Times about the place of the humanities in a recession (click here for the original post). As a follow-up, here is another important voice in the discussion of the value of the humanities in higher education. Wilfred McClay, one of our Keynote Speakers at … Continue reading
A Visit to The Kilns and Oxford
Oxford has a way of getting under your skin-I’d been there for Oxbridge 2008, been there years earlier for conferences and such. Churches! Libraries! Bookstores! Spires! But every visit had been characterized by hurrying through Oxford: pushing along the crowded sidewalks, running from one conference session to another, busing en masse to see the sights, … Continue reading
March 2009 Update from the C.S. Lewis Study Centre at The Kilns
News from The Kilns – March 2009 January was certainly a bleak midwinter, with hard frost and bone-chilling cold that transformed the surroundings of the Kilns into Narnia’s winter. While this landscape was very lovely to see through Jack’s bedroom window, even a brief venture out of doors was immediately a reminder of the intense … Continue reading
