Q: What is your evaluation of Warnie’s Christian commitment? Was it vital to him or more of a cultural tradition? Did he really grasp what Jack was writing? A: As a young man, Warnie’s Christian faith was primarily cultural, but after 1930 or so his was a genuine Christian faith. He and Jack returned to […]
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Recommended Listening by Composer J.A.C. Redford
Greetings to all of you who participated in the CSLF webinar on Music in Narnia! Thank you for your time and your questions. For those of you who are interested, here’s a link to the Ordinary Saints project that Amber mentioned: https://ordinary-saints.com If you’d like to explore my music, following are links to my YouTube […]
A Personal Tribute to Laurence Harwood, OBE: Godson of C.S. Lewis
By Deborah Higgens, PhD [Note: it is with fond remembrance and personal sorrow that we share the news that Laurence Harwood, C.S. Lewis’s Godson and a friend of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, died on November 23, 2020] “I’m here to take Debbie to lunch,” Laurence, the god-son of C.S. Lewis, told Stan Mattson, President of […]
Lessons from Living at The Kilns
Want vs Need and the Importance of Community From Carley, Scholar-in-Residence August 2020 While working on an MA in Writing for Young People, I have learned much about the elements of writing a children’s book. A key consideration is character – specifically, the relationship between a character’s wants and their needs. Arguably the best kinds […]
Living at “The Kilns”
From Paul, a Scholar-in-Residence August 2020 When I first came to the Kilns, it was as a pilgrim reaching what T.S. Eliot calls a “still point of the turning world.” My feet brought me to the ground where my favorite author, the one who did so much to introduce me to the person and ways […]