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Tag Archives: The Great Divorce
Enslaved to the Pressure of the Ordinary: What Screwtape Taught Me About my COVID Experience
It really has been an extraordinary year. For those future readers who haunt these literary halls, 2020 began easily enough. The British were brexiting, the Americans were engulfed in a couple of primaries to see which old white man would … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged apocalyptic literature, COVID-19, online teaching, pandemic, post-apocalyptic, SF, Teaching, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters
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Review of “C.S. Lewis and the Christian Worldview” by Michael L. Peterson
Note: This is a longer and more conversational version of a review that was published this week in Literature and Theology, which you can find here (free, open access). For those of you who would like a short, tight review, … Continue reading
The Grand Miracle, Or Easter in Everyday Life with C.S. Lewis (75th Anniversary)
On this Holy week near the close of WWII, C.S. Lewis preached a sermon called “The Grand Miracle” at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. The talk was published two weeks later in The Guardian–following the last episode … Continue reading
1,000th Post Party!
It’s the 1,000th post on A Pilgrim in Narnia! Huzzah! I began this blog way back in 2011 as a sandbox project for thoughts about C.S. Lewis’ writings. “Pilgrimage” was a word-picture I was using a lot for my life … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Discworld, Earthsea, Field of Arbol, H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Potter, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Lilliput, Middle Earth, Narnia, Númenor, Neil Gaiman, New Urth, Oz, Panem, Prince Edward Island, Ringworld, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Enderverse, The Great Divorce
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Announcement: A Pilgrim in Narnia 1,000 Post Party on Wednesday!
On Wednesday, we’ll celebrate our 1,000th post on A Pilgrim in Narnia! Begun in 2011 as a sandbox project for thoughts about C.S. Lewis’ writings, the blog has certainly grown. With nearly 900,000 hits, 18,000 comments, 100 guest posts, and … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged Blogging, C.S. Lewis, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Great Divorce
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Brenton Dickieson’s Great Divergence within the Great Divorce: Podcast Interview on In the Corner Back by the Woodpile
A couple of years ago I blogged about the podcast, In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, this one about Phil Keaggy and C.S. Lewis’ influence. It took this long, but I was finally able to sit down with the … Continue reading
It is Easy to Teach C.S. Lewis’ “Till We Have Faces,” but It’s Hard to Blog About It
Though I am always nudging readers to see The Great Divorce as C.S. Lewis’ most genius work of fiction, Till We Have Faces truly is a remarkable novel. It is the dying-days journal of Orual, Queen of Glome, who sues her capricious gods … Continue reading
Posted in Original Research, Reflections
Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Signum University, The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces
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Did I Assign the Right Lines from Paradise Lost? A Rebuke from C.S. Lewis and a Christian Literature Reading List
For the first time, I am teaching Paradise Lost–beyond the normal references that come up in English literature, C.S. Lewis courses, and talks about religious history. I am using it to begin an undergraduate course on Christian Literature (after reading Donne‘s … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged A Canticle for Leibowitz, A Preface to Paradise Lost, A Wrinkle in Time, C.S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, Gilead, Godric, John Donne, John Milton, Madeleine L'Engle, Marilynne Robinson, Paradise Lost, Perelandra, Shūsaku Endō, Silence, The Great Divorce, Walter Miller
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C.S. Lewis, Gender, and The Four Loves: An Open Class
C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves is a book that is building in popularity nearly 60 years after it was originally published. My original review of the book 8 years ago remains one of the top posts on this blog, and I … Continue reading
C.S. Lewis’s “To love at all is to be vulnerable” Infographic by Gavin Aung Than
I am having an open class on “C.S. Lewis, Gender, and The Four Loves” tonight (you are welcome to join, but must sign up here). In returning to the text, I was reminded by a student of a cartoon infographic … Continue reading