Monthly Archives: July 2014

Remembering Christopher Mitchell

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

This week many online blogs are mourning the loss of Christopher Mitchell, past director of the Marion E. Wade Center. Here is the official Wade Center blog, and you can read tributes and memories from the Oddest Inkling and Essential … Continue reading →

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On Mixing Fantasy with Real Life, A Lesson from Sesame Street (#WritingWednesdays)

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

This is the latest in a series called “Writing Wednesdays,” focusing on writing resources from the common to the unusual. This one is perhaps a little unusual. For work I am reading Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (2000). It’s been … Continue reading →

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Two Different Prefaces to C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I am certain that within long I will be accused of being obsessed with Prefaces. I have posted great prefaces to C.S. Lewis’ The Allegory of Love and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, and I have even published the … Continue reading →

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“Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to be Said” by C.S. Lewis

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

This post is part of an ongoing series Called Writing Wednesdays.  Perhaps no one would be more surprised than C.S. Lewis himself at the success of his classic children’s stories, The Chronicles of Narnia. Hundreds of millions of copies of … Continue reading →

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