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The War of the Worldviews: H.G. Wells vs. C.S. Lewis (Part 1)
This is the first part of a two-part series on two early science fiction writers: C.S. Lewis and H.G. Wells. While they were both British novelists in the early 20th century, they had quite different...
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The War of the Worldviews: H.G. Wells vs. C.S. Lewis (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part series on two early science fiction writers: C.S. Lewis and H.G. Wells. You can read part 1 here, which discusses C.S. Lewis’ reading of Wells and the basic...
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“Once Upon a Dreary Era”: A Review of Peter Kreeft’s Critical Essay On C.S....
Anyone who has heard a lecture from the characteristic voice of Peter Kreeft—and there are a number available free on iTunesU—will hear his humour behind the words of his dozens of books. His books are...
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The Narnia Code: A Pre-Review to a Key Idea
I know, I know: there is no such thing as a pre-review. But I’m stuck between two pressing realities. Facing me is the fact that Michael Ward’s argument in Planet Narnia and The Narnia Code is...
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A Year of Reading
It might be a first, but I managed to keep one of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2012. In January, I resolved to read 50 books or articles related to my research and writing on C.S. Lewis, and I hit #50...
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“The Planets” in C.S. Lewis’ Writing
It does not take long for a serious reader of C.S. Lewis to realize that he was in love with cosmology—the planets and the stars as they sit within the vast expanse of space. His first popular fiction...
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Taking a Breath before a Second Dive
Here I sit, on the edge of 1937. Not literally, of course. This is not a blog from the 30s, waiting until now to see digital light. But in my reading of C.S. Lewis’ work, this is where I am, just about...
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Idea-Seeds in C.S. Lewis’ Letters
One of the reasons I like reading C.S. Lewis’ letters is that I get to see hints of ideas that will one day become books. Except for some time in his 20s, we don’t have Lewis’ diaries, and most of his...
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C.S. Lewis’ 1st SciFi Fan Letters, from Evelyn Underhill and Roger Lancelyn...
I have received two fan letters in my writing life thus far. I know! Impressive, isn’t it? I had published a little piece called “On Being Fat and Running” in Geez, a socially-engaged Christian...
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“But I Don’t Wanna Be Susan!” Guest Post by Beth Oliver
This summer I posted a quick write up of my project of reading Lewis chronologically thus far, called “Taking a Breath Before a Second Dive.” In the comments a great discussion broke out, and one of...
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Out of the Silent Planet, the comic book. By AaronTP
Brenton Dickieson:I’ve blogged about the crazy book covers for Out of the Silent Planet, and I’ve talked about its meaning in my War of Worldviews series (Part 1 & Part 2), as well as “There’s No...
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Writing Process Blog Hop! (#WritingWednesdays)
Recently I was tagged in a blog hop on Writing Processes by theology blogger David Russell Mosley. Check out his blog, Letters from the Edge of Elfland. The Writing Process Blog hop invites bloggers to...
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Two Different Prefaces to C.S. Lewis’“That Hideous Strength”
I am certain that within long I will be accused of being obsessed with Prefaces. I have posted great prefaces to C.S. Lewis’ The Allegory of Love and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, and I have...
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“The Myth of Empty Space” by Dallas Willard
I was at my extended family’s house yesterday and saw Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy on a side table. It is a bookish home, and I’m a bookish person, so I’m often flipping over books and...
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The Fictional Universe of Narnia
I am editing a paper Mythcon in August in Norton, MA. I am quite excited to be presenting some of my work on The Screwtape Letters and the Ransom Cycle. It is an unusual audience, a mix of scholars and...
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“Into the Region of Awe” by David C. Downing: A Review
For some time I have suspected that David Downing was on to something here. Part of what I’m doing in researching C.S. Lewis is to see what is at the core of who he was as a Christian—not just what...
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Wow, What a Fall!
Or a trip–choose your double entendre. I have been impeccably busy these last few weeks, so that family meals have been like Gatorade cups in a marathon, and my garden has started to engulf the...
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Digital Dust? Thoughts on my 300th Post
300 posts. Wow. When I began this project, I had little sense of an end in sight. It really began as a way of reading C.S. Lewis out loud. Over time, as my roots have deepened, the tree has branched...
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2014: A Year of Reading
I seldom do well at New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve failed at almost every well-intentioned goal. One that I have managed to keep is my reading resolution. As I’ve begun working on a PhD in Theology and...
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Why is Merlin in That Hideous Strength?
I am writing a paper on C.S. Lewis and the Arthurian tradition for Sørina Higgins’ collection, The Inklings and King Arthur. As I trawl through the materials one common theme keeps coming...
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