
Tag: C S Lewis
Is This Narnia? No, Just Chicago: A Narnian Promotion Event
October 13th, 2005
I traveled with my wife Joan and son Michael to Wheaton Bible Church outside of Chicago on Tuesday for a Narnia promotion event sponsored by Walden Media, Disney, MissionAmerica, and Outreach.com. We left at 3:30AM EST from Bowling Green, OH for the 10AM CST event and arrived in time to sip some Starbucks in downtown […]
Serenity and C. S. Lewis
October 2nd, 2005
It is dangerous to speculate on what kind of movie C. S. Lewis would or would not like. After all, he did not like movies. But he did like narrative and romance (i.e., a technical term for adventure and questing, not a reference to Harlequin novels)–and he loved science-fiction, or “speculative fiction.” He chose it […]
What It’s Like, This Writing Life
September 22nd, 2005
My second book on Narnia, Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, is now out, got my first author’s copy yesterday; the bookstores should have it by the end of the week or sooner. The publicity trail is starting up. I got a big package yesterday […]
Interviews on My New Books
September 17th, 2005
Thought you might be interested in seeing my answers to some questions posed on a Narnia web site regarding my two new books and the Narnia movie. Here goes: How do you think the movie will impact Lewis’s legacy? This movie promises to be a very excellent adaptation of Narnia, given the high production values, […]
CSL the Scholar Christian
September 9th, 2005
Those who know C S Lewis only as a Christian apologist may underestimate and thus underprivilege his amazing output as a scholar. If we think he excels as a fantasist, what might his literary critic friends think of his scholarship? We don’t have to guess. As one of colleagues suggests, “I went to some of […]
CSL and Home Schooling
August 26th, 2005
I was privileged today to meet with some home schooled children and parents here in a private home in Bowling Green to discuss Lewis’s life and the upcoming Narnia movie. I remarked on Lewis’s upbringing, and relation to the experience of home schooling at the hands of William Kirkpatrick, known in Lewis’s autobio work, Surprised […]
CSL in the NY TIMES
August 23rd, 2005
The venerable NY TIMES has a front page story today featuring scientists who believe; one featured scientist, Dr. Francis Collins, who appeared in PBS’ The Question of God, is quoted as crediting Mere Christianity for helping him overcome his atheism. See the article here
The Giant “Surmise”
August 22nd, 2005
The first non-Lewisian Narnian tale (or as the subtitle refers to it, “A Narnia Tale”) was published this year by HarperCollins, entitled, The Giant Surprise. It’s intended for “young readers” as a “picture book,” and, ostensibly provides a convenient way to tell a story drafting Puddleglum the Marshwiggle as the central character. I finally recently […]
Lewis’s Reputation
August 20th, 2005
Just in the past two days I have received emails from earnest souls worried about C. S. Lewis’s reputation, by which I mean someone–a friend or a website wag–had said something to them untoward about Lewis’s “real beliefs” or, “If you knew what he and the Inklings really thought, you would not be so enthusiastic.” […]
The Day the Book Comes
August 14th, 2005
It is hard not to be enthralled. You’ve labored over it for many months after its been seasoned for many years in your teaching, your daydreams, and your sermons. It’s concrete now. It’s on paper. An editor reads it. It’s in galleys. You get to see cover art. Amazon has an ISBN #. And then, […]
