IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN I, CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS Professor of the University of Cambridge hereby revoke all former wills and codicils heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last Will 1. I APPOINT ARTHUR OWEN BARFIELD of Danes Inn House, 265 Strand in the City of Westminster, Solicitor, and ALFRED CECIL HARWOOD of South Harbour, Read More ›
I. Introduction The Evidence of Fine-tuning1 Suppose we went on a mission to Mars, and found a domed structure in which everything was set up just right for life to exist. The temperature, for example, was set around 70o F and the humidity was at 50%; moreover, there was an oxygen recycling system, an energy gathering system, and a whole Read More ›
In August 1998 James Prothero, editor of The Lamp-Post, wrote to certainother authors of entries in the C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia. He called the book shockingly “Lindskoogian,” and said Walter Hooper had warned him that Lindskoog can now imply to the innocent public that all the contributors agree with her opinions. Therefore Prothero decided to write a formal disclaimer. Read More ›
On 6 September 1998 the PBS program “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” named and identified the world’s 25 religious leaders of the 20th Century who have been most influential in the United States. The list included Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Buber, the Dalai Lama, Dorothy Day, Mary Baker Eddy, Mohandas Gandhi, Billy Graham, Gustavo Guitierrez, Carl Henry, Abraham Heschel, Pope Read More ›
In September’s American Spectator. Tom Bethell’s two-page article”Controversy in the Shadowlands: Questioning the authorshp of some C. S. Lewis works” quotes John Bremer (from the C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia): “[The Dark Tower] gives the impression of having been written by an undergraduate fascinated with homosexuality.” To be even-handed, Bethell praises Walter Hooper’s C. S. Lewis: Companion and Guide “a Read More ›
At a breakout session, Doug Gresham talked glowingly of Walter Hooper, saying that he defers to Walter’s “definitive” knowledge of the works of C. S. Lewis. Although Gresham downplayed how well Hooper knew Lewis (“Walter didn’t know Jack the man at all”), he backpedaled questions about whether Hooper exaggerated his relationship with Lewis. Gresham said that he isn’t sure that Read More ›
The Special Centenary Edition of The Dark Tower and Other Stories(HarperCollins, 1998) announces on its back cover that “The Dark Tower … is a draft of a possible fourth volume to follow Lewis’s acclaimed adult science fiction trilogy.” Those who read that statement might be tempted to think that here is another case of sloppy writing by a publisher’s marketing Read More ›
Doug Gresham read a letter from Lewis to a Mrs. Baxter from Kentucky in 1947. In the letter, Lewis said he tried writing a children’s story, but it was universally regarded as so bad that he destroyed it.
Conference-goers touring the Kilns were treated to a picture of the Shroud of Turin in Lewis’s old bedroom. The picture apparently was the one given to Lewis by Sister Penelope. Where did the picture come from? Walter Hooper. Hooper also indicates he has a Norman crucifix that hung over Lewis’s bed, but he hasn’t given that to the Kilns. Also Read More ›
At one of the concluding banquets at the Oxbridge conference, Doug Gresham read from a poem that he said he wrote around 25 years ago about the death of C. S. Lewis. The interesting thing is that the poem includes what sounds like a death scene between Gresham and Lewis, as if Gresham was at Lewis’s bedside when he died. Read More ›