Tag Archives: Marion E. Wade Center

Why Didn’t Someone See it First? Discussing the Screwtape-Ransom Discovery

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Last week I shared some research in The Screwtape Letters—research that has changed the course of my research. You can read it here, but basically it showed that C.S. Lewis was thinking about his work in ways we never knew. … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Original Research | Tagged C.S. Lewis, literature, Marion E. Wade Center, Ransom Trilogy, research, Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters, theology, University, writing, WWII | 51 Comments

On Pretending to be in a PhD (pt. 2)

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

In my 400th blog post I noted that in 2011 I began pretending I was in a PhD. It is doubtless an odd thing to say, though it has been normal for me for so long I didn’t even think … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Reflections | Tagged Charles Williams, Dorothy L. Sayers, Fictional Universes, Flannery O'Connor, graduate school, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, Marilynne Robinson, Marion E. Wade Center, phd students, Regent College, Ursula K. LeGuin | 22 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

May Artifact of the Month: Charles Williams’s Honorary Master’s Degree

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Originally posted on Off the Shelf:
Museum display at the Wade Center featuring Charles Williams’s honorary Master of Arts degree from Oxford University, and the mortar board he wore during the ceremony. With graduation season beginning, we thought it appropriate…