“The very air here calls my heart to dance…” I wrote this sonnet while staying as a Scholar in Residence at the Kilns, C.S. Lewis’ home. During my stay, I realized that Oxford, and the Kilns and surrounding woods and fields in particular, is a ‘thin place’ for me: a place where what one might […]
Holly Ordway
A Sonnet for The Kilns
As I write this, I am staying at The Kilns as a Scholar in Residence through the C.S. Lewis Foundation. It’s my first visit to The Kilns, and it’s marvelous. The house has been lovingly restored by volunteer labor to be much as possible how it was when C.S. Lewis and his brother Warnie lived […]
Looking Back, Looking Ahead – by Dr. Holly Ordway
The 2011 C.S. Lewis Summer Institute at Oxbridge ended last week, and we could not be happier with the way everything unfolded. As a way of reflecting on the conference as a whole, we will run another blog post by Dr. Holly Ordway, borrowed (with her permission) from her website Hieropraxis. Photos were taken by […]
Joyful Reflections, by Dr. Holly Ordway
Holly Ordway, longtime friend and supporter of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, has just put up a blog post on her website Hieropraxis, chronicling one day in the course of the conference. She gave us her permission to re-post it here, so we’d like to share it. Photos were taken by Lancia E. Smith: “It might […]
Vacationing with a Purpose
What should I do on my summer vacation? For this college professor, the answer this year was easy: combine service, fellowship, worship, and fun by spending two weeks in Northfield, Massachusetts, at the future C.S. Lewis College site, participating in the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s Vacation with a Purpose! As I write this, it is the […]