Tag Archives: Joy Davidman

The First Meeting of the Inklings, with George Sayer

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

I wrote last week about all the literary groups that formed some of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and how L.M. Montgomery was alone. One of those was the Inklings, which made C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien into … Continue reading →

Posted in L.M. Montgomery, Memorable Quotes, Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, George Sayer, Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joy Davidman, Nevill Coghill, northernness, Paris Expats, Robert Havard, The Bloomsbury Set, the Detection Club, The Inklings, The Silmarillion | 16 Comments

C.S. Lewis’ Pretty Awful and Peculiarly Interesting Letter on Writing

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

How many times have you heard of the struggling writer providentially bumping into an established author or writing a letter? And then that writer on the edge of hopelessness becomes the recipient of a little piece of advice or encouragement … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Memorable Quotes, On Writing | Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, books, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joy Davidman, letters, Letters to an America Lady, Letters to Children, On Writing, Perelandra, Roger Lancelyn Green, Surprised by Joy, writing | 9 Comments

Billy Graham, C.S. Lewis, and Me

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

On Wednesday we all received news of Billy Graham’s passing. There were few figures my mother loathed more than the Rev. Billy Graham. It was the politics that she couldn’t stand, taking the position that given his public support of … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged American evangelicalism, Barack Obama, Billy Graham, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge, evangelical, evangelicalism, Joy Davidman, Just As I Am, Martin Luther King Jr., Mere Christianity, Mitt Romney, Political Theology, Richard Nixon, Smoke on the Mountain, Winston Churchill | 28 Comments

The Top 6 New Posts of 2017

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

In 2017, A Pilgrim in Narnia passed a number of milestones. We passed the 700-post threshold, had our 500,000th hit, were shared for the 10,000th time, and are nearing in on 7,000 followers. We had our seven biggest months this year, … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, On Writing, Studies in Words | Tagged Beren and Lúthien, Blogging, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joy Davidman, Sr. Penelope, Studies in Words, The Silmarillion, The Tale of Beren and Lúthien, writing | 6 Comments

Lewis’ Reflections on the Psalms and The Revised Psalter by C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

Until the time I was forced to hammer out the details for my chronological reading of C.S. Lewis’ works, I thought that he wrote Reflections on the Psalms out of his work with an Anglican committee to update the Book of … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research | Tagged Book of Common Prayer, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis on Scripture, Clyde S. Kilby, Coverdale, Joy Davidman, Michael Christenson, Reflections on the Psalms, Revised Psalter, Smoke on the Mountain, T.S. Eliot, The Psalms, Tyndale, WWII | 18 Comments

The Women That Changed C.S. Lewis’ Life

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

If your experience of C.S. Lewis is only Mere Christianity, Time magazine covers, or a struggle with Susan Pevensie in Narnia, no doubt your most striking image of Lewis will be that of the Oxford Don in shabby tweed surrounded by old books … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged A Grief Observed, Abigail Santamaria, C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Crystal Hurd, Elizabeth Anscombe, feminism, Flora Lewis, International Women's Day, Joy Davidman, Mary Neylan, Mere Christianity, Narnia, Perelandra, Ruth Pitter, Surprised by Joy, Till We Have Faces, Virginia Woolf | 17 Comments

George Watson’s Provocative Comments on C.S. Lewis as Literary Critic

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the advantages of finding new libraries is that the librarian’s skill of book-buying is more art than science. The librarians I know, despite their adept use of analytics, have as much curator or architect in them as they … Continue reading →