Scholars in Residence
My Work Here is Done
Reprinted with permission from Brett McCracken’s blog The Search It’s amazing what a week of focus, peace, quiet and no distractions can do for a writer. Being at the Kilns this past week has been that for me, and it’s paid off. I wrote two whole chapters in my book (I am now two chapters … Continue reading
What Does “Mere Christianity” Look Like?
Reprinted with permission from Brett McCracken’s blog The Search “It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of … 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
“A Ph.D. Journey by Way of Narnia” – A Scholar-in-Residence Report from The Kilns
Debbie Higgens, Ph. D., is a Professor of English at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. She wrote this article describing her experience as a 2007 Scholar in Residence at the C.S. Lewis Study Centre at The Kilns (the former home of C.S. Lewis), Oxford, England. An edited version of this article also appears in … Continue reading
