
Category: Articles
Jack’s Legacy? Timelessness.
June 24th, 2015
By Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Whenever I speak on Lewis, I nearly always am asked to comment on his “legacy.” I realized that I have been talking about Jack’s “legacy,” now, for more than 35 years. The challenge, as I describe below, is that Jack’s legacy keeps growing; he’s not done influencing, educating, challenging, preparing […]
Smuggling Theology: Out of the Silent Planet
June 8th, 2015
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Sister Penelope, a winsome, lifelong correspondent of C. S. Lewis, had written to him about the provenance of his first space travel adventure, Out of the Silent Planet, a volume remarkably full of theological insight. He replied whimsically: “Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under […]
The Allure of Gentleness: Apologetics in the Manner of Jesus by Dallas Willard.
June 3rd, 2015
The Allure of Gentleness: Apologetics in the Manner of Jesus by Dallas Willard. HarperOne, 2015. 208 pp. Reviewed by J.M. Hawthorne Dallas Willard’s posthumously published book, The Allure of Gentleness, is an invitation to see the world through the eyes of a man filled with kindness and love, and to help others with their doubts […]
Prince Caspian: Forward to the Past (or, Learning How to Enjoy a Sequel)
May 23rd, 2015
I have never met any dedicated reader of the Chronicles of Narnia who told me that Prince Caspian was her favorite volume. I think I know the reasons why this might be so, and in due course, I will eventually get around to addressing this question. But let’s start here: sequels get no respect! That […]
A Modest Proposal for Folks Inclined to Forward (Likely) Inaccurate Quotations Attributed to C. S. Lewis
May 18th, 2015
Stop. Just Stop. If you love Jack, and you can’t help but express your admiration by posting a Tweet or Facebook post that features someone else’s borrowed post or meme, think twice. If you didn’t find it yourself and you didn’t read it verbatim from a verifiable work of C. S. Lewis, don’t assume it’s […]
Jack the Counselor
May 3rd, 2015
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards (c) 2015. Ask any ten avid readers of C. S. Lewis to describe his vocation and I suspect 9 out of 10 will use one of the following terms: Christian apologist, fantasy/sf writer, children’s author, literary critic, Oxford don—a handful, maybe even “poet.” Few, I reckon, would think to refer […]
Jack the Blogger
April 6th, 2015
Our continued affection for and the extended appeal of C. S. Lewis more than 52 years after his death, now half past the second decade of the supposedly post-postmodern 21st Century, suggests to me two things about him and his work that may seem patently obvious. Except for the fact that so few people have […]
Sunrise, Sunset: A [Puddleglum] Palm Sunday Meditation
March 28th, 2015
John 11:11-16 Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Sunday, March 29, 2015 Puddleglum on Palm Sunday It’s Palm Sunday, and we want to be respectful of the church calendar and its momentum towards Easter, so our meditation today tries to locate us pretty close to that Palm-sheathed path for His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. If it doesn’t […]
C. S. Lewis’s Great Experiment
January 26th, 2015
A book few readers of C. S. Lewis will ever voluntarily pick up has the unwieldy, even forbidding title, An Experiment in Criticism. The title conceals more than it reveals. An experiment in what? And criticism of whom? The title doesn’t tell. It’s the classic book that you need to know what it’s about before […]
How to Honor C. S. Lewis on His 116th Birthday
December 4th, 2014
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards If C. S. Lewis were present today, where I live in Willow, AK, he would be celebrating his 116th birthday, and probably would be up for a brisk walk on this Arctic tundra that is home to many of his readers and admirers, even in this village of less than 2000—as long as it […]
