Our dear friend and event speaker Malcolm Guite just invited me to link to a post on his blog related to this year’s Summer Seminar at The Kilns. Malcolm spent an afternoon with a group of seminar participants at the Orchard in Granchester. After receiving an unexpected and very welcome gift from Jerry Root, Malcolm
The Kilns
From a Kilns Scholar, 2009–Dr. Greg Bourgond
The following is an excerpt from the C.S. Lewis Foundation newsletter written by a scholar-in-residence at the Kilns, Dr. Greg Bourgond: “I stood at the door of the Kilns on September 7th still reeling from just leaving the tyranny of the urgent back home. Immediately, I felt an easing of anxiety by the peace I
Risking Some Comparisons
Dear Readers, Well, I am still waiting for that annoying alarm clock tone to wake me up from this fantastic dream I’ve been living in for the past few months. Never would I have guessed that I would be here, living in C. S. Lewis’ house, walking through his Narnian forest of Shotover, reading first
Secret Rooms
Dear Readers, Remember when you were a child and you would occasionally have dreams of walking into a room of yours and instead of finding a closet or a bedroom, it would instead be utterly filled with whatever your heart desired? I used to dream I had secret rooms like those that would change with
A Word from the Kilns
Dear Readers, Greetings from Oxford, England! I am absolutely thrilled to be the acting warden here at The Kilns this spring. God is so good, and He never fails to surprise me with this fact. The series of events that led me here could have happened in no other way than through God’s omnipotent guidance