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Lewis Foundation Business: Mattson’s Latest Report

3 December, 1997: “All of us here at the C. S. Lewis Foundation believe our work is of the utmost strategic importance in the battle for the minds and hearts of this generation. And it appears we are not alone in thinking so as a growing number of you have joined with us, through your prayers and financial support, in Read More ›

Doing Business in Ireland: Shades of Scrapo Easley

Although the Lewis literary estate is owned by an investment company incorporated under the laws of Singapore (for tax purposes), and its attorney is reportedly based in Holland, its managing director is a man named Melvin Adams who lives on Church Road in Greystones, a seaside resort in County Wicklow about 20 miles south of Dublin. Telephone 353-1-2875233; fax 353-1-2875236. Read More ›

Another Smoking Gun; No July 1963 Oral Contract

C. S. Lewis introduced Roger Lancelyn Green to Walter Hooper on 17 June 1963. On 1 August Hooper wrote to Green. Once this letter was delivered, it was Green’s property; and he or his heirs eventually placed it in the Bodleian Library. (If Green had returned the letter to Hooper, it would probably reside in the closed cache of papers Read More ›

C. S. Lewis and the Titanic

by James O’Fee, Belfast ‘Titanic’ will probably be this year’s largest-grossing feature film, and readers may like to consider C. S. Lewis’s links with that ‘ship of dreams’. Jonathan Bardon writes: ‘From the late autumn of 1908 a huge gantry, 228 feet above the slips, dominated the skyline of east Belfast; here Harland and Wolff prepared to build two immense Read More ›

The C. S. Lewis Legacy for the 21st Century

Time: June 19-21, 1998 Location: Seattle Pacific University Seattle, WA This conference will explore the relevance of C. S. Lewis’s writings for the 21st Century. Confirmed speakers: * Peter Kreeft (author of C. S. Lewis for the Third Millenium …) * Phil Johnson (author of Darwin on Trial…) * Tom Howard (author of The Achievement of C. S. Lewis …) Read More ›

Death of Lionel A. Luckhoo, Jones Massacre Survivor

The obituary of Owen Barfield in the Daily Telegraph in December appeared below the obituary of Sir Lionel Luckhoo, who died at 83. It described Sir Luckhoo as ambassador for Guyana and Barbados, a Christian evangelist, and the Georgetown, Guyana, lawyer for Jim Jones before he orchestrated the 1978 mass suicide of 900 people (duped by fake healing ceremonies and Read More ›

The Lewis Legacy-Issue 75, Winter 1998 News and Views

George Ralph, Lewis lover and Legacy subscriber, has died prematurely and unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed by many at Hope College in Holland MI, where he was a beloved professor of drama. On 29 September 1997 Martin Marty received a National Humanities Award from President Clinton, who said that no one has done more than Marty to explore the Read More ›

The Lewis Legacy-Issue 75, Winter 1998 Stop and Shop

Books by Legacy readers Being a Christian in Science by Walter R. Hearn (InterVarsity Press, 1997). Aimed at college students who might consider careers in science, this concise, provocative insider’s overview contains facts and insights to excite any intelligent Christian reader. I, Jesus by Robert Darden (Summit Publishing Group 1997). An imaginative but thoroughly Biblical retelling of the story of Read More ›

A Report on the C. S. Lewis Foundation “Live the Legacy” Celebration

The [25 October 1997 C. S. Lewis Foundation] dinner was quite a sumptuous affair. First we received an envelope containing an elaborate souvenir program, a flyer for Oxbridge ’98 and a catalog of auction items. There was a lavish hors d’oeuvre buffet on a terrace outside the dining room, with a cash bar and silent auction items on tables all Read More ›

C. S. Lewis: A Centenary Celebration

Time : July 15-20, 1998 Location: Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL The C. S. Lewis Centenary Celebration is sponsored by the Mythopoeic Society, an international nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams. (The Society publishes three magazines and sponsors local discussion Read More ›