Posts Tagged With: Oxford

C.S. Lewis Summer Institute Ad in World Magazine

The C.S. Lewis Foundation has just run an ad on our upcoming C.S. Lewis Summer Institute in World magazine.  It is featured in their February 12th issue, but you can view it as a pdf by clicking on the image to the left. The C.S. Lewis Summer Institute (also known as “Oxbridge“) takes place this … Continue reading »

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Greetings from Nan Rinella at The Kilns

DAY THREE-WEDNESDAY, August 5 Have you read Lewis, studied him, and longed to visit his home-the womb of his creation? I have, and I am here at The Kilns for the 2009 Summer Seminars. At the moment I am sitting in the upper garden surrounded by flowering trees, bushes, flowers-many of which I have not … Continue reading »

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Michael Ward to Speak at Science Oxford Live

For those of you in England or visiting next week, Michael Ward will be discussing his book, Planet Narnia, in Oxford at Oxford Science Live.  Here are the details: Planet Narnia – July 2 7.30pm, Tickets £3 (SO Friends Free) C.S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia, was an Oxford scholar with an extensive … Continue reading »

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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 »

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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 »

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