Category Archives: Guest Blogs

The Faithful Imagination, a Review by Allison McBain Hudson

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

Ricke, Joe, and Ashley Chu, eds. The Faithful Imagination: Papers from the 2018 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends. Hamden, CT: Taylor University, 2019. The title of this volume refers to the theme of the eleventh Biennial … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Reviews | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Crystal Hurd, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, H.P. Lovecraft, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joe Rickey, L.M. Montgomery, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sehnsucht, Taylor University | 7 Comments

Naturally Holy: Some Thoughts on Till We Have Faces, A Guest Post by Katie Stevenson

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis is well known to revere nature in his writings, including vivid pictures in The Narnia series, Perelandra (from his space trilogy), and The Great Divorce. His imagery of purity and wonderful holiness often takes hold of his characters’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs | Tagged C.S. Lewis, heaven, Holiness, paganism, theology, Till We Have Faces | 13 Comments

George Macdonald’s “The Princess and the Goblin”: The Animated Movie with a Note by ChrisC

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis once observed that with “every tick of the clock, in every inhabited part of the world, an unimaginable richness and variety of ‘history’ falls off the world into total oblivion.” It’s a somewhat cruel fate that’s familiar to … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, News & Links | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Citizen Kane, cultural literacy, E.D. Hirsch Jr., George MacDonald, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Old Books, On the Reading of Old Books, The Princess and the Goblin | 55 Comments

The 100 Best Fantasy Books by Steve Hayes

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Originally posted on Notes from underground:
I saw this list of best fantasy books from Reddit. Top 100 Best Fantasy books: This is a list of the best fantasy books. If you want to find good fantasy books to read,…

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Guest Blogs | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Connolly, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, Ursula K. Le Guin | 5 Comments

Mark Vernon’s “A Secret History of Christianity,” review by Wesley Schantz (On Owen Barfield)

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Review of A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness, by Mark Vernon A guest post from Wesley Schantz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars For purposes of calibration or, if you like, conversion, … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Reviews | Tagged A Secret History of Christianity, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Vernon, On Fairy-Stories, owen barfield, philosophy, Splintered Light, Surprised by Joy, The Discarded Image, Verlyn Flieger, William Blake | 42 Comments

How do you Solve a Problem like Susan Pevensie? Narnia Guest Post by Kat Coffin

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Every few years or so, I’ll get a PM on my Twitter or my Tumblr that asks what is essentially the same question. These followers know my love of all things C.S. Lewis, particularly the Chronicles of Narnia, have heard … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs | Tagged C.S. Lewis, feminism, gender, Gender Theory, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Lewis and Gender, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Narnia, Philip Pullman, Prince Caspian, Susan Pevensie, The Last Battle, The Problem of Susan | 102 Comments

Gods or Angels? A guest post by Yvonne Aburrow

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

The Inklings and Paganism Before he became a Christian, C.S. Lewis was deeply inspired by ancient Pagan mythology, and he continued to value it as mythopoeia after his conversion, and seems to have sought to reconcile the Christian worldview with … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien, myth, mythology, Narnia, Norse Mythology, owen barfield, paganism, That Hideous Strength, The Discarded Image, The Hobbit, The Magician's Nephew | 35 Comments

What does Philip Pullman’s Daemon Voices have to say about the Inklings? Guest Post by Wesley Schantz

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

For a long time, Philip Pullman’s been my favorite living writer. And for practically as long as I’ve loved his stories, particularly The Golden Compass, I’ve been aware of his harsh criticisms of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. (That’s actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Guest Blogs, On Writing, Reviews | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Daemon Voices, fantasy, Fictional Universes, g k chesterton, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Narnia, Philip Pullman, The Hobbit | 32 Comments

What Counts as an Old Book? A Response by Dale Nelson

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

This is a response to “What Counts as a Classic? A Conversation with C. S. Lewis and Goodreads,” a blog post I wrote on 18 Dec. 2018 centred on images like the one above. There was quite a conversation that … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs | Tagged Arthuriana, Bible, C.S. Lewis, canon, Cultural Capital, Dale Nelson, Harold Bloom, John Guillory, literature, The Western Canon, University | 35 Comments

Peruse Some More Old Books with C. S. Lewis: Guest Post by Dale Nelson

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

I want to welcome back Prof. Dale Nelson. Dale has written for us before (see here and here and here), and he is following up his great Peruse Some Old Books With C.S. Lewis post with some more! Drawing on … Continue reading →