
Archives: December 2007
A Contrarian View of The Golden Compass
December 31st, 2007
Here is an alternative view to address the now fairly tame (because of the lack of box office staying power) controversy over The Golden Compass, written by my son, Justin Edwards, a former youth pastor, now filmmaker and musician in Santa Monica, CA, at his sprightly Pseudobook Review site. Pseudobook is the arts, music, and […]
C. S. Lewis: My Mentor
December 24th, 2007
I am not an adult convert to Christianity who became enamored of C. S. Lewis through an encounter with his prodigiously passionate rationalism on behalf of the faith. I did not read his Narnia books as a child, and I had never heard of him or his splendidly baptized imagination before I reached the age […]
America’s Bonny Fighter: C. S. Lewis
December 21st, 2007
CSL Bonny Fighter I recently spoke at the Southeastern Baptist Seminary C. S. Lewis Conference on the topic of Lewis’s formidable presence and continuing impact on American readers and Christians of all communions. Here is a video podcast of that presentation. — Bruce
Finding Neverland
December 19th, 2007
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” – […]
HarperCollins CSL Blogsite Now Up
December 10th, 2007
You can find the update blog on C. S. Lewis with contributions by David Downing and yours truly here: http://booksbycslewis.blogspot.com/. Happy reading!
Planet Narnia
December 7th, 2007
“Visiting Planet Narnia” We are pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Ward, Cambridge University, who will speak at Bowling Green State University, Tues., January 22, 2008, 6:45PM, BGSU Student Union, Rm. 308. Sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Graduate Students. Watch this space for a review of his intriguing new work on the origins of […]
The New Prince Caspian TRAILER
December 5th, 2007
Find it here at Narnia Web You can also download HD versions for your AppleTV, iPod or other device.
Take that, Pullman, er, Hollywood!
December 4th, 2007
If you don’t happen to read Gregg Easterbrook’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for espn.com, you may not have seen his scathing commentary on the movie derived from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass: . . . Recent anti-religion best-sellers by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens read like Middle Ages papal bulls, pronouncing a new […]
Some Interview Spots Re: CSL
December 1st, 2007
Over the past two weeks I have been interviewed for two print feature items. Toledo Blade, Nov. 24, 2007: On Narnia vs. The Golden Compass. Investor’s Business Daily, Nov. 21, 2007:On Lewis as inspiration
