Tag Archives: The Great Divorce

The Heavenly Horses of C. S. Lewis: A Guest Blog by Leslie Baynes

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the most memorable scenes in The Great Divorce, and the only one where a shade accepts grace and enters heaven, features a horse. At the end of chapter 11, the Ghost enslaved to the lizard Lust desperately desires … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Douglas Gresham, equestrian, equine, horses, mythology, Narnia, Sarah Smith, The Great Divorce, The Horse and His Boy, The Kilns, WWI | 28 Comments

“Sarah Smith, of Golders Green” by Hannah Eagleson

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

In the ongoing series on The Great Divorce we come to Sarah Smith–certainly one of the more intriguing, engaging, troubling, and freeing characters in C.S. Lewis’ fiction. In this week’s guest post, poet Hannah Eagleson gives us a glimpse into … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sarah Smith, The Great Divorce | 5 Comments

Finding that Elusive Title: The Many Names of The Great Divorce

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

I am about 50/50 when it comes to titling my own work. Sometimes the title is patently obvious; other times it is a struggle to come up with a pithy phrase that captures what I’ve just written. I have one … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, g k chesterton, Milton, Pilgrim's Regress, self-death, Sorina Higgins, Spirits in Bondage, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, William Blake, writing | 48 Comments

Love That Is Not Love: The Character of Pam in The Great Divorce

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

The Great Divorce begins not with characters but with caricatures. We begin with cartoons of a short man with a superiority complex, a cheated hysterical woman, a vacant liberal clergyman, a unisex couple–“both so trousered , slender, giggly and falsetto … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged A Grief Observed, agape, books, C.S. Lewis, grief, love, motherhood, motherly love, self-death, storge, surrender, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce | 15 Comments

“Choosing Heaven: A Choice You Can Watch in the Making”: A Guest Sermon by Doug Jackson

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

As part of our ongoing occasional series on The Great Divorce, I have invited Doug Jackson to share a devotional reflection on this classic C.S. Lewis book. It takes the form of a homily, a sermon on the idea of heaven based … Continue reading →