Posts Tagged With: J.R.R. Tolkien

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 »

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Book Review – The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia

BOOK REVIEW The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller Little Brown: 320 pp., $25.99 By Nan Rinella To anyone who loves C.S. Lewis and Narnia, The Magician’s Book presents a dichotomy between delight and disbelief. The critique/biography/author’s memoir is mesmerizing in its perspicacity, but mystifying from a Christian perspective. Laura Miller … Continue reading »

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