Our Founder and first President, Stan Mattson, died this week at age 86. A great man, but more importantly, a good man, he was many things to people over the course of his life – a friend, husband, father, mentor, father-figure, leader, President, Headmaster, Professor, truck stop owner, student, son, sailor, and a formidable “Words […]
Stan Mattson
On C.S. Lewis in Poets’ Corner
Lancia Smith, long-time friend and supporter of the C.S. Lewis Foundation (as well as speaker at many of our events), has recently published an article on her blog about the upcoming commemoration of C.S. Lewis in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey. It took many years for the memorial to materialize, but finally on November 22, […]
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 Christmas Thank You from Stan & Jean Mattson
Less than two weeks ago, well over five hundred friends and fellow worshippers, from near and far, were gathered together in Northfield, Massachusetts, to celebrate our Lord’s birth in an extraordinary candlelight service of Lessons and Carols, in the beautifully restored Russell Sage Chapel on the future campus of C.S. Lewis College. As carols and […]
New Article in Fortune About Hobby Lobby and C.S. Lewis College
An article was just released in the November 1st issue of Fortune about Hobby Lobby and its purchase of the Northfield Campus for the founding of C.S. Lewis College. The issue, which just hit newsstands this Monday, details the Green family’s/Hobby Lobby’s charitable giving, featuring its relationship with C.S. Lewis College and other Christian educational organizations. The article should […]