Please note that this schedule is subject to change. Click on the dates above the chart to see the schedule for each day.
| Inklings 101 Track | Writers Track | Academic Roundtable | |
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| 10:00am | |||
| 10:30am | The first Writers Track session focues on the importance and role of faith and the spirit in the writing process and the vocation of a writer. | ||
| 12:00pm | |||
| 1:30pm | In this session, Devin Brown will trace the fascinating story of Tolkien’s life — from his birth in South Africa, to his days as an Oxford student and a soldier in World War I, to his great friendship with C. S. Lewis. We will look at Tolkien’s major works and how he came to write... | Join Life Coach and award-winning Author, Melanie Stiles, in an interactive session dedicated to helping you reach your full potential as a writer with God-given talents and gifts. Together, we’ll examine what it takes for writers to survive and thrive. You’ll gain a stronger awareness of your role and calling as a writer, the place... | |
| 3:00pm | |||
| 3:30pm | In the third Writers Track session, Malcolm Guite will teach writers the importance and place of poetry and poetic techniques in their writing, no matter their chosen genre. | ||
| 3:30pm | |||
| 5:00pm | |||
| 7:00pm | |||
| 9:00pm | |||
| 9:30pm | |||
| 9:30pm | |||
| Inklings 101 Track | Writers Track | Academic Roundtable | |
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| 7:00am | |||
| 7:30am | |||
| 9:00am | |||
| 9:30am | |||
| 10:45am | |||
| 11:00am | Charles Williams was ardently admired by C.S. Lewis as an author and thinker before they ever met face to face in 1939, but he became intensely loved by Lewis as one of Lewis’s dearest friends after Williams moved to Oxford. Though Williams was often regarded by his contemporaries as obscure and abstract and Lewis was... In this session Devin Brown will walk through the main points of his recent book The Christian World of The Hobbit and will show the influnce that Tolkien’s deep Christian faith had on his fiction. We will also explore some ways we should probably not interpret Tolkien’s fiction. Afterwards, Dr. Brown will have copies of his book available. | ||
| 12:30pm | |||
| 2:15pm | With Chris Baron and Randall Hasson, this presentation encompasses both the artists and the poet’s perspective and vision, firsthand. The talk begins with an introduction to Chris’ poetry as he reads selected poems. Randall Hasson then narrates the slides of his sequential artwork, delving into the reasons behind the symbolism, design and execution of the pages. Interspersed with Chris’ poetry,... For many people, prayer is understood only to be asking for what we need, or going through the repetition of prayers written by people who lived long ago. For others questions about the efficacy and purpose of prayer become a stumbling block. Is prayer anything more than making requests? Are there elements that we can... Although most readers of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe recognize that Aslan is the Christ of Narnia and that his death and resurrection replay the gospel story, fewer realize that the Chronicles of Narnia provide deep insight into moral/ethical decision making. In this lecture, I shall show how The Chronicles of Narnia embody... | ||
| 3:45pm | |||
| 4:15pm | C. S. Lewis, together with his good friend J. R. R. Tolkien, was one of the modern world’s greatest defenders of friendship. Though friendship appears neither on the fourfold list of classical virtues nor on the threefold list of theological virtues, Lewis, in both his life and his writings, sought to revive and rehabilitate friendship... | ||
| 5:30pm | |||
| 7:00pm | |||
| 9:30pm | |||
| 9:30pm | |||
| Inklings 101 Track | Writers Track | Academic Roundtable | |
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| 7:00am | |||
| 7:30am | |||
| 9:00am | Devin Brown will be talking about and showing the documentary which he wrote and helped produce titled “C. S. Lewis: Why He Matters Today.” Featuring such figures as Tim Keller, Eric Metaxas, Douglas Gresham, and Micheal Flaherty, the documentary shows Lewis’s attempt to reclaim Christian reason and restore the Christian imagination. Dr. Brown will also tell... | ||
| 10:30am | |||
| 11:00am | |||
| 11:50am | |||