Our Programs
Since its founding in 1986, the Foundation has labored tirelessly to fulfill its mission through several principal initiatives, which include:
The C.S. Lewis Study Centre at The Kilns
Located in Oxford, England, The Kilns is now restored thanks to the labor of over two hundred volunteers and the financial support of many others. The Centre was formally dedicated in July of 2002. Throughout the academic year, it hosts visiting Senior Scholars-in-Residence and all-but-dissertation doctoral candidates in support of their varied research projects; provides Summer Seminars-in-Residence for avid readers of Lewis and related authors; and provides guided tours for hundreds of visitors who come to The Kilns annually from all over the world.
The C.S. Lewis Summer Institute
Held triennially since 1988, the Summer Institutes have served over three thousand registrants to date at distinguished Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Its seventh convening summer at Oxbridge 2008 addressed the theme Imago Dei?: The Self and the Search for Meaning.
A broad-based and growing network of “mere Christian” faculty, administrators, trustees, and graduate students that actively seeks to advance the cause of academic freedom for scholars of faith serving within the “marketplace of ideas.” To date, the Faculty Forum has convened nationally at the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, CA (1992); at the Kellogg Conference Center of California Polytechnic University, Pomona (2000 and 2002); on the campuses of UCLA (2001) and UC Berkeley (2003); and most recently at the University of Colorado – Boulder (2007).
Regional Conferences and Retreats
Designed to provide environments and programs in which scholars, artists, clergy, campus ministers and lay readers of Lewis engage both mind and spirit in the tradition of C.S. Lewis. Registrants are drawn from many walks of life and include Christians and seekers alike. To date, city-wide and regional gatherings have been held in such locations as San Antonio, Austin, and Navasota, TX; Nashville, TN; San Diego, CA; and Asheville, NC.
SPECIAL NEWS!! We are about to take a major step forward towards the long-awaited goal of establishing C.S. Lewis College. A news conference was held on December 16, 2009 in Northfield, Massachusetts, announcing the purchase of a campus for the use of C.S. Lewis College.
For details on this rather extraordinary event, including the press release, announcement videos, and photos of the campus, visit http://www.cslewiscollege.org.
Upcoming Events:
The Company We Keep:
Creativity & Community
with C.S. Lewis & the Inklings
Navasota, TX
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