Tag Archives: WWII

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 →

Posted in Original Research | Tagged Book of Common Prayer, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis on Scripture, Clyde S. Kilby, Coverdale, Joy Davidman, Michael Christenson, Reflections on the Psalms, Revised Psalter, Smoke on the Mountain, T.S. Eliot, The Psalms, Tyndale, WWII | 41 Comments

Sad Peninsula by Mark Sampson

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

My mother was a voracious reader. I remember watching her as she read on the couch or a deck chair, slowly turning the leaves as if she was counting the pages rather than gobbling up hundreds of words at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Canadian literature, Japan, Korea, Mark Sampson, On Writing, Sad Peninsula, Stephen King, writing, WWII | 21 Comments

The Transformative Power of Memory: Lewis and the World Wars

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

The first reader of C.S. Lewis’ autobiography, Surprised by Joy, might be puzzled by the fact that WWI—the catastrophe that decided the fate of so many of Europe’s great thinkers and artists and inventors—makes up very little of Lewis’ narrative. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, environment, ethnic cleansing, global warming, Ransom Trilogy, The Screwtape Letters, Walter Hooper, war, writing, WWI, WWII | 34 Comments

“Tolkien’s Great War”: A Film by Elliot Weaver & Zander Weaver

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

As we sit on the centennial of the Great War, WWI, we find ourselves in a moment of cultural reflection. It really was a brutal conflict: 35-40 million casualties, followed by the Spanish flu and its 50-100 million deaths. The war … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links | Tagged documentary, fellowship, film, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Garth, Middle Earth, mythopoiea, PTSD, TCBS, Tea Club and Barrovian Society, war, writing, WWI, WWII | 28 Comments

A Manuscript List and Timeline of The Screwtape Letters

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

A couple of weeks ago I had announced the publication of a surprising draft of a preface to The Screwtape Letters. This “Handwritten Preface” is a “Cosmic Find,” since it shows us that Lewis thought about including Screwtape in the … Continue reading →