The Myth Made Fact in the Local Congregation
One of the stumbling blocks that held C. S. Lewis back from embracing Christianity was his inability to understand how the death of an…
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Review: Imaginative Apologetics
Andrew Davison (ed). Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition. 2011. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. In his Introduction, Andrew Davison…
Read MoreMything the Point: Why Some Stories Strike True and Others Fall Short [Part Two]
George MacDonald speaks of the true essence of a meaningful fairytale in his classic essay, “The Fantastic Imagination”: [A fairytale] cannot help having some…
Read MoreJ.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis on the True Myth of the Gospel
On 30 January 1945, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote to his son Christopher about the ‘beauty’ of the Christian story. Regarding the ‘Eden “myth”’,…
Read MoreMything the Point: Why Some Stories Strike True and Others Fall Short [Part One]
Have you ever noticed how some stories make a deep impression on certain people yet fail to make a dent in others? You know…
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C.S. Lewis’s Guidelines for a Christian Journal
In April 1947, C.S. Lewis wrote to Laurence Whistler with advice on the creation of a Christian literary journal which Whistler was hoping to…
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