During our C.S. Lewis College webinar on Saturday, August 15, 2020, we interviewed best-selling author Davis Bunn on his writing, his life, and his thoughts on storytelling. Due to time constraints, we weren’t able to get to every question, so Davis generously offered to answer the remaining questions through email. We’re pleased to post them
Living Within the Unseen
A meditation for the Feast of the Transfiguration, 2020 Yesterday, I was in a discussion with some of my fellow UTC students about the last chapter of C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. In the last letter, “the patient” dies in the London blitz. At this man’s death, the veil between the seen and the
Fairy Tales that Come True
Today being Lammas Day, I thought it fitting that I should head down to the local bakery for some bread and coffee. As I ate my breakfast, I continued my re-reading of G. K. Chesterton’s book on St. Thomas Aquinas. The life of C. S. Lewis never far from my thoughts, I was struck by
An Old Falsehood
Recently, I was reading C. S. Lewis’s book English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. In his introduction, Lewis seeks to inform the reader of the 16th century worldview in order to rightly understand the authors of that time. One needs to understand, per Lewis, that medieval concepts were still very much alive. One of these
Living with Our Mortality
Recently, I developed a video series on a Christian view of death and dying. I did this because there is so much to remind us in the news these days of our mortality – all the statistics about the various ways people are dying around us and how many of them there are. While preparing,