Monthly Archives: September 2012

A Prophecy After it Happened; Or, How Children Shape the Future

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

While reading The Magician’s Nephew to my son, I blogged a couple of weeks ago about how “What We Believe is What We Become.” I don’t believe it is an absolute rule of human life–all of us change paths from … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorable Quotes, Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, children's literature, Dufflepud, Hitler, Jadis, lion the witch and the wardrobe, nuclear bomb, science, Screwtape, The Last Battle, The Lion, the Witch, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, war | 5 Comments

C.S. Lewis Wasn’t Just Smarter Than Me… Hints on Education from a Remarkable Letter

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

There is some irony in the fact that I’m working hard to get a PhD in C.S. Lewis so that I can teach at a university, when Lewis himself—Professor at Cambridge for nine years and Don at Oxford for thirty—never … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Education, joel heck, Leo Baker, literature, Oxford, phd students, Poetry, writing | 12 Comments

On a Love for Books; or, An Apology to My Patient Wife

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

I am, alas, a frequenter of used bookstores. While I like new bookstores, I find them too bright, too organized, almost clinical. They are garish and ostentatious, and all of them share the great sin of not selling my own … Continue reading →