The following is an excerpt from the C.S. Lewis Foundation newsletter written by a scholar-in-residence at the Kilns, Dr. Greg Bourgond: “I stood at the door of the Kilns on September 7th still reeling from just leaving the tyranny of the urgent back home. Immediately, I felt an easing of anxiety by the peace I
Scholars in Residence
C.S. Lewis College & The Arts
The following post is from Cole Matson, one of our Scholars-in-Residence at The Kilns. Taken with permission from his blog The Unicorn Triumphant, Cole’s post gives his reaction about the recent C.S. Lewis College announcement and his ideas on the relationship of the arts, Great Books, and Christianity at the future college. Thank you Cole
My Work Here is Done
Reprinted with permission from Brett McCracken’s blog The Search It’s amazing what a week of focus, peace, quiet and no distractions can do for a writer. Being at the Kilns this past week has been that for me, and it’s paid off. I wrote two whole chapters in my book (I am now two chapters
What Does “Mere Christianity” Look Like?
Reprinted with permission from Brett McCracken’s blog The Search “It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of
A Visit to The Kilns and Oxford
Oxford has a way of getting under your skin-I’d been there for Oxbridge 2008, been there years earlier for conferences and such. Churches! Libraries! Bookstores! Spires! But every visit had been characterized by hurrying through Oxford: pushing along the crowded sidewalks, running from one conference session to another, busing en masse to see the sights,