Tag Archives: Regent College

Regent College’s Inklings Related Lectures on Sale (Friday Feature)

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

A lecture series is a great way to discover a new area, to deepen knowledge in our areas of concentration, or to reboot a reading project. Over a season of painting houses I used iTunesU and some other lecture resources … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Friday, Reviews | Tagged Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Crystal Downing, J.R.R. Tolkien, lectures, Michael Ward, Ralph Wood, Regent College | 2 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

How I Stumbled into C.S. Lewis (“On Pretending to be in a PhD” pt. 1)

Posted on August 5, 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 Thoughtful Essays | Tagged Albert Camus, archive, biblical studies, C.S. Lewis, christianity and culture, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, graduate school, Inklings, Regent College, Sartre, Teaching, theology, Theology of Culture, writing | 31 Comments

The Novelist as Listener, by Eugene Peterson

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

Over the past few years I have had the luxury of being a TA and Instructor in Regent College’s phenomenal distance education program. Long past the days of correspondence tapes in the mail, distance ed is now highly relational and … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing, Memorable Quotes, On Writing | Tagged art, books, Christian spirituality, Eugene Peterson, literature, prayer, Regent College, spiritual theology, The Message, theology, writing | 14 Comments

Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism: A Confessional Review

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

I read Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism quite by accident, and at a time when I should have been attending to other matters—in particular, getting assignments back to my students in a timely manner. I asked Zondervan for … Continue reading →