Monthly Archives: September 2011

Love, Actually: Pat Robertson vs. C.S. Lewis on Real Love

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

Recently Pat Robertson has hit the media with a crazy statement. Some of you may not be surprised. When he’s not calling on American military to perform an assassination or suggesting that the gay pride parade in Orlando might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged alzheimers, C.S. Lewis, conservative, controversy, culture, Death, evangelical, evangelical controversy, fundamentalist, gay pride parade, Letters to an America Lady, love, marriage, Pat Robertson, sacrifice, Tolkien | 9 Comments

A Virtual Mentor: My Review of the C.S. Lewis Class at RTS by Knox Chamblin

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

Admittedly, I’ve never written a review for a class before. To me, there is something crassly consumeristic about treating a classroom like a CD or a book, to be bought, sold and traded. But, with the invention of iTunesU—an online … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Bible, C.S. Lewis, christology, Dr. Knox Chamblin, evangelical, evangelical controversy, innerrancy, iTunesU, myth, Reformed Theological Seminary, revelation, RTS, Scripture | 6 Comments

Falling Towers and Failing Courage: The Sleeping Giant a Decade after 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

As the decade after 9/11 closes I am struck not by the strength of America in the face of great adversity, but weakness: economic chaos, political stalemates, global paranoia, leaderless disarray, military discord and the frenetic clutching of a culture … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, C.S. Lewis, Canada, courage, honor, Iraq, retreat, shame, U.S., war | 8 Comments

Thoughts With An American Lady: Thinking About Lewis’ Late-in-Life Letters

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

Not long after beginning Letters to An American Lady, I blogged about C.S. Lewis and the Art of Letter Writing. By the tenth letter in the volume I knew that Lewis found writing letters to his fans to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged art of letter writing, C.S. Lewis, Clyde S. Kilby, Death, dying, heaven, letters, Letters to an America Lady, Walter Hooper | 12 Comments

And The Greatest of These…: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ Four Loves

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

The Four Loves is one of Lewis’ last Christian book and of his popular nonfiction, the one closest to his field of study. His Allegory of Love (1936) was the most popular of his work in literary criticism and was … Continue reading →