C.S. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop

Inklings & Intentness (the only “I” word I could find for passion)
A Passion for Books by Terry Glaspey, Editor, Harvest House

Book Review by Nan Rinella

Terry Glaspey is having an affair-with books. He has a passion for them.
“I came late to a love for books,” Glaspey writes. As a child, he was addicted to TV [...]

Joy - Wants to remind writers attending her sessions that they will be part lecture and part interactive. You are coming to write?
Fiction vs. Nonfiction Track?

I’ve asked that y’all reply to me about which track you are planning to attend.
This was only to gauge approximate [...]

This week on Nan’s blog . . . for “Retreaters” & Writers:
Areas of interest: The Important “Ps”
PRONOUNCEMENT - What to read before you come.
PREPARATION - What do you need to do to prepare?
PURPOSE - Why you’re attending.
PLAN - What you hope to accomplish.
PRESENTATION - Making a good impression.
PREPARING & PRACTICING your PITCH - To our [...]

Review of Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis by Terry Glaspey, Editor, Harvest House

Review by Nan Rinella

NOT A TAME LION is a book about a hero. Not as the world sees, but as God sees, and men of God desire to learn from and emulate. A lion of a man with a voice heard round the world, turning men to God.

It’s a small book as books about Lewis go, but it’s brimming with Lewis’s wisdom and dramatized scenes of his life. Terry Glaspey uses elements of creative nonfiction with fleshed out scenes that touch the senses and transport you into Lewis’s life.

The book begins on a cold foggy morning with “Jack” Lewis sitting in the sidecar of his brother Warren’s motorcycle on a trip from Oxford to Whipsnade Zoo. “When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,” wrote Lewis in his autobiography, “and when we reached the zoo I did.”