“I was the Lion”

An interesting article by Dr. Alan Snyder that appears here. In my ongoing preparation for teaching C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia at my church, I’ve now completed five of the seven books, the latest being The Horse and His Boy. This book is unique as being the only one where no one from our world…

A Year of Reading Lewis: The Abolition of Man

L. A. Smith of A Traveler’s Path has kindly agreed to let us take a look at some of her thoughts on Lewis! I have never read Abolition before. I knew it was an important work, but its subtitle, Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools, didn’t inspire me…

How fast could C.S. Lewis read?

by Kevin McCall It is well known that C.S. Lewis was an extremely fast reader.  Richard Ladborough, in his essay “In Cambridge” in the bookC.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table writes: “It is now common knowledge that his [Lewis’s] memory was prodigious and that he seemed to have read everything.”  In his essay “Jack on Holiday” in the same…

Article by S. Dorman   Is there a right—or wrong—way to fictionalize C.S. Lewis? I cannot say the question was considered when I began tearing into the materials for Fantastic Travelogue, a speculative fiction in which C.S. Lewis and Mark Twain talk things over in the hereafter. Fictionalizing questions that I came to later—in order…

The synergy of CS Lewis and Owen Barfield

Article by Professor Bruce G Charlton It is well known that CS Lewis and Owen Barfield were best friends, from soon after 1919 when they met as undergraduates in Oxford University until Barfield’s death in 1997, some 34 years after Lewis had died. Because Barfield’s active engagement with Lewis – as man and thinker – continued right throughout his life, as evidenced in…

Albion Awakening Shares A Post With Us

An article by the wonderfully-named William Wildblood. The blog referred to in this article is Albion Awakening Mere Christians If there were patrons of this blog, in the sense of guiding lights, they might well be C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien with an honourable mention, particularly in Bruce Charlton’s case, of Owen Barfield. The stories…

Review: Beversluis on Lewis 

Article by Donald Williams from a blog called The Five Pilgrims, July 10, 2017 ote:  This review was originally published in Mythlore: The Journal of the Mythopoeic Society 105/106, Spring/Summer 2009): 168-70.  C. S. LEWIS AND THE SEARCH FOR RATIONAL RELIGION. Revised and Updated. John Beversluis.  Amherst, N. Y.:  Prometheus Books, 2007. 363 pp.  $20.00, pbk.  ISBN 978-1-59102-3. Surely one of the most…

Of Mice and Men Without Chests

This post from another blog is on a similar subject to the early Superversive blog post The Goals of the Superversive. The article is also available on audio on the original site. Of Mice and Men Without Chests by ANNA GITHENS At first glance one might surmise that the title of this article alludes to the characters…

Two Modern Saints

This is a repost of an article by an author with the excellent name of William WIldblood. A sentence in John Fitzgerald’s recent post set me thinking. He wrote “The body of work left behind by the Inklings has helped re-mythologise the world and baptise the contemporary imagination”. I haven’t read much by any of the…