C.S. Lewis Summer Conference 2006
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
“Love Among the Ruins: On the Renewal of Character & Culture”
Special Tracks
1. Children’s Track – Pursuing Prince Caspian: Character Lessons from Narnia – Andrew Lazo
Designed for children ages 8-12 (age exceptions gladly considered on an individual basis!), this program will offer children a chance to engage with C. S. Lewis on their own level in imaginative, creative and faithful ways. So what does that mean, how will that look, you surely ask? So glad you did!
- Imaginative: Following Lewis’ example of gleefully living the life of the mind, we will ask the children loads of questions, letting the answers arise from their own thoughts—how might the Prince Caspian movie look? How might the forthcoming
film differ from the book we are reading together? Which characters in the book do
you recognize in yourself and others? Who do you want to be like?
- Creative: Each day, children will participate in a creative activity of their choosing—making up stories based on some of Lewis’ hints in the books, making pictures, or songs, or a little play—the limits in this section will be those of the imagination!
- Faithful: Each day, after reading from the book, we will explore on a child’s level devotional aspects from the text. We’ll memorize some verses and seek from our reading ways in which we can live as followers of Aslan in our homes and schools – in all our daily lives.
- Joyful: We will spend time each day in song with the children. Whether meant for learning memory verses, performance, or just plain fun, our song time will joyfully reinforce the creative learning happening at every session.
Our goal is for purposeful fun, so that we might encourage children to enjoy their reading, to find little life lessons all around them, and to become better followers of Aslan in their own inimitably unique ways!
The Children’s Track will meet for 7 sessions, each Saturday morning (July 7 and 15) as well as Monday-Friday, July 10-14, from 9:00-12:30. Drop-ins are welcome on the weekends. A short program presenting some of what the children have learned during the week will be conducted at the beginning of the Friday evening Summer Institute program, July 14.
2. College Briefing Track (A course for college-bound high school juniors and seniors.)
CRASH! The Secular University and the Christian Student: How to Thrive on Campus –Chris Nichols
Question: How does the Christian student do more than survive on the secular campus? Answer: By learning to be cross-culturally engaged with some of the central issues every student has to think about.
We’ll be focusing on five hot topics on today’s secular campuses:
- inter-faith issues (Islam, Judaism, Christianity)
- homosexuality
- race
- controversies over historic Christianity
- abortion
We’ll be studying Scripture, learning about campus positions on the issues, seeing movie clips, engaging in discussion, and learning how to navigate these topics as Christ followers in the secular campus setting. Come join us as you prepare for your next adventure, the university world!
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Andrew Lazo – A Ph.D. candidate at Rice University, where he studies Modernist British literature, Lazo is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the Humanities, as well as a visiting scholar at the Marion E. Wade Center (Wheaton, IL). He has published several articles about Lewis and Tolkien and has lectured around the country on their books. He has also taught a highly popular church-based adult education course, exploring devotional aspects of The Chronicles of Narnia. He enthusiastically led the Children’s Track at our Southeast Regional C.S. Lewis Retreat at Camp Allen, Texas in 2004 and 2005.