Cathy Crow, one of our friends and an alumnus of several of our conferences, including Oxbridge 2008, recently sent us an article describing her church’s creation of a Narnia themed library. Cathy, a professional librarian, spearheaded the project, and is featured in the article. We thank the Columbia Metropolitan magazine, author Susan Fuller Slack, and […]
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The Narnia Code Premieres on the BBC tonight
In just a few hours, the new documentary The Narnia Code, based on Michael Ward’s book Planet Narnia, will premiere on BBC1 television. The documentary is directed and produced by Norman Stone, who also directed and produced the films C. S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands and C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia For more information on the […]
Is There Anything Redeemable about Spam?
For those of you expecting a long rant about the negative aspects of technological spam – about the annoyance of it, the wasted time spent on it, its contribution to the evils of the world, and its negative impact on the environment (yes, spam is not green – see an article about it here and […]
More on the Worth of the Humanities
Several weeks ago, we posted an article from the New York Times about the place of the humanities in a recession (click here for the original post). As a follow-up, here is another important voice in the discussion of the value of the humanities in higher education. Wilfred McClay, one of our Keynote Speakers at […]
Poetry in the 21st Century – Does It Matter?
At our Oxbridge 2008 conference, Dana Gioia, award winning poet and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, gave an address titled “Art and the Search for Meaning.” In it, he discussed the role of art in life, in education, and in Christianity, and argued that we have an innate need for beauty […]