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 fully 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 now 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 in residence at distinguished Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Its seventh convening summer at Oxbridge 2008 will address the theme Imago Dei? The Self and the Search for Meaning.

 

The Faculty Forum

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) where it addressed the theme “The Crisis of the University: Freedom, Tolerance and the Pursuit of Truth.” Area-wide prayer luncheons, half-day and evening lectures, as well as an Adopt-a-Campus Prayer Project have also been held as networking and support events.

 

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.

 

C.S. Lewis College

Envisioned as a college of the “Great Books,” with a School of the Visual and Performing Arts, C.S. Lewis College is about to become, at long last, the focal point of the Foundation’s efforts, with the objective of confirming its exact location, close to a major secular university campus, within the next three years. The four areas currently under consideration include sites close to Princeton, Duke/UNC, Amherst, Massachusetts and Claremont, California.

 

Upcoming Events:

Now open for 2008 registration!	Now taking registrations for 2009!

2008
July 28 - Aug. 8	Oxbridge 2008 Summer Institute The Self and the Search for Meaning	Oxford and Cambridge Universities, England	Web Page
July 5 - 11, & July 13 - 19	Summer Seminars-in-Residence at The Kilns	Oxford, England	Web Page

 

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