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Call For Guest Blogs on The Great Divorce

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

On Monday, Nov 10th, we celebrate the 70th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’ novella, The Great Divorce. I rank this among the best of Lewis’ fiction and one of his richest thought experiments. Though not one of his bestsellers, I think … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Reflections, Reviews | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Death, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, heaven, hell, Hitler, imagination, myth, Nazism, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, theology, WWII | 34 Comments

Peter Kreeft on Hell (Hell Series Part 2)

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

Peter Kreeft is a Catholic philosopher, C.S. Lewis scholar, and a contributor to the genre of Screwtape-style letters. This piece is an excerpt from his Fundamentals of Faith, and is available here. The hell with hell! says the modern mind. … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorable Quotes | Tagged C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, hell fire and damnation, Peter Kreeft, religion, The Great Divorce, theology | 7 Comments

Narnian Pilgrims and The Evil of Middle Management

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

My son and I have just finished the fourth Chronicle of Narnia, The Silver Chair. Though it is perhaps the least layered book, with fewer mythic symbols woven into the fabric of the storyline, it is probably my favourite book … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorable Quotes, Reflections | Tagged bullying, C.S. Lewis, dragon, Eustace Scrubb, evil, heaven, Jill Pole, Reflection on the Psalms, The Screwtape Letters, The Silver Chair, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 14 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

The Marriage of Now and Then: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

Last spring, after I read Rob Bell’s bestseller Love Wins, I knew I had to go back to C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce. Though often missed by reviewers, Bell’s work is shot through with Lewis’ influence. My first encounter with … Continue reading →