Tag Archives: Joy Davidman

The Mystery of Love and C.S. Lewis’ Morning Song

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis’ love story with poet and author Joy Davidman has been made famous by Lewis biographers and, especially, the stage production and film, Shadowlands. Abigail Santamaria’s fairly recent biography of Davidman, Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis–which I … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorable Quotes | Tagged Abigail Santamaria, Aubade, C.S. Lewis, Collected Poems, Don King, John Donne, Joy Davidman, owen barfield, Poetry, Shadowlands, The Sun Rising | 9 Comments

Inklings Graves in Oxford

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Isn’t that the coolest name? Quarry Hollow. So lovely and evocative and spooky. I wish I had been there at night to take a proper Hallowe’en picture. I took this picture when I was cutting through some alleys in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughtful Essays | Tagged Austin Farrar, Beren and Lúthien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, graveyards, Halloween, Hugo Dyson, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Blish, Joy Davidman, Kenneth Grahame, Lord of the Rings, Max Müller, Narnia, Oxford, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Warren Lewis | 46 Comments

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 | 56 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 | 10 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 | 29 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 →