Sponsored by C. S. Lewis Foundation and the C. S. Lewis Study Center, Northfield, MA Longing for Beauty and Justice: Restoring a Commonweal University of Massachusetts, Amherst November 1-3, 2024 Theme Statement: Despite cultural and political tensions there is a prevailing longing for both Beauty and Justice. How do these two important concepts relate? Can
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For Lewis Reading Day, 2023
When C. S. Lewis gave his famous “De Descriptione Temporum” speech at Cambridge University, he described himself as a “dinosaur” partly because his education had been of the older type, where it was expected that a youth read the classics in the original Greek or Latin. Though he went on to teach Philosophy and English
Announcing our Writer’s Conference and other events through 2025
Dear Friend, Greetings! We hope you are enjoying these cooler autumn days and that the upcoming holiday season will be a blessing for you and your families. We regularly pray for our friends, supporters, and speakers. If you have a prayer request, simply reply to this email and let us know. ———- We are excited
Laying the Past Aside
When we as believers speak of spiritual formation, we are, of course, talking about our sanctification, viz., how we are transformed by God’s grace from sinners to saints in the totality of our lives. This transformation of necessity includes an ongoing repentance from all that is still presently sinful about us. While repentance is a
In Memory of Tammy Rowan Cox, Kate Simcoe, and Debbie Haney
For many summers, I served at C.S. Lewis’s home, “The Kilns,” during our C.S. Lewis Summer Seminars with three wonderful women. Kate Simcoe died of brain cancer in 2012. Debbie Haney died of dementia a few years ago. And, this morning, I learned the last of our beloved troop, Tammy Rowan Cox, bravely passed away