We here at the C.S. Lewis Foundation are very proud of Debbie Higgins, the resident director at The Kilns, for the publishing of her first book, Announcing ‘Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings. The book gives “a detailed study of how Tolkien entered into the community of Anglo-Saxon storytellers as a […]
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C.S. Lewis Around the Web – May 1, 2013
HeIn his final book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis generated some controversy about his views on life after death, and heaven. There were many debates about what Lewis meant when he described the character Emeth’s entrance into “heaven” at the end of the book. Emeth is a follower of […]
Back from Narnia
Gregory Pyne kindly gave us permission to repost a blog post about his experience at the 2012 C.S. Lewis Retreat in Navasota, Texas. The original post appeared on his blog “Wandering Tree” at http://wanderingtree.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/back-from-narnia-2/ “Friendship exhibits a glorious ‘nearness by resemblance’ to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases […]
“A Present (a Pipe) and a poem to go with them”
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 […]