Tag Archives: A Grief Observed

That Awkward Conversation in the Face of Death

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

Like so many others before me, I spent my teenage years working in a pizza joint after school and on weekends. We were not well off, so if I wanted the things that mattered to me in high school—a car, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged A Grief Observed, Anthony Hopkins, C.S. Lewis, Death, Debra Winger, Douglas Gresham, grief, N.W. Clerk, Shadowlands | 28 Comments

A Review of “The Chapel of the Thorn,” a lost Charles Williams play by Sørina Higgins

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Libraries are sacred spaces. I have had the opportunity to make pilgrimage to some of these storied cathedrals. I sat in contemplation at the Edwin W. Brown Collection at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, not even sure what I would … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged A Grief Observed, Arthuriana, Bodleian Library, Chapel of the Thorn, Charles Williams, fantasy, Gladstone's Library, letters, Margaret Atwood, Marion E. Wade Center, Poetry, religion, Science Fiction, Shakespeare | 19 Comments

Love That Is Not Love: The Character of Pam in The Great Divorce

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

The Great Divorce begins not with characters but with caricatures. We begin with cartoons of a short man with a superiority complex, a cheated hysterical woman, a vacant liberal clergyman, a unisex couple–“both so trousered , slender, giggly and falsetto … Continue reading →