(This poem from Spirits in Bondage is about grace, and a precurser of “The Day with a White Mark.”) So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs the long, material chain From cause to cause, too merciless for hate,The nightmare march of unrelenting fate, I think that Read More ›
by James O’Fee Cunard has decided to award the contract for its latest cruise liner, the Queen Mary II, to a French shipbuilding firm rather than to the Belfast shipbuilders Harland’s and Wolff. This contract was widely regarded as the last hope for Harland’s, whose order-book is empty after June 2000. C. S. Lewis saw Harland’s build the Titanic and Read More ›
In her 2,700-word article about pilgrimage, “Walking Where Lewis Walked,” (Christianity Today, February 2000) Virginia Stem Owens told how her husband got her to reluctantly accompany him on a group C. S. Lewis tour, and how surprised she was to learn that Lewis was only five feet tall. As she put it, much shorter than Anthony Hopkins. (Owens is the Read More ›
by John Bremer In my article “C. S. Lewis and the Ceremonies of Oxford University,” in The Lewis Legacy for Winter 1999, I refer (p.5) to the term Mugger used by Lewis to designate the Master of his college, Univ. It seemed puzzling then, as my note indicates, but clarification is to be found in the diaries of W.H. Lewis, Read More ›
When I was a Curate in St. Marks, Dundela, 1950-54, C. S. Lewis used to visit the Ewart family at Glenmachan. They were his cousins. Miss Kelsie Ewart on occasion invited me to dinner, probably 1951 or 1952. I was greatly thrilled to meet the man whose books enthralled me and whose presentation and defense of Christianity to my generation Read More ›
I just got the new Lewis Legacy, and as always it is fascinating. I like the “C.S. Lewis: Not On Their Side/Not On Our Side” articles — I was very surprised at first to meet “mere” Christians who held Lewis in disesteem, but now I’ve got used to it; as Thomas Howard notes, many of them can’t stomach his “Catholic” Read More ›
March 27, 2000 (reported by Dr. Ralph Blair) The venue was the long, high ceilinged hall of the Harvard Club of New York City. The dark wood paneling reflected the glow of crimson shaded lamps throughout the room. Harvard and Oxford Alumni Associations sponsored the meeting. The speaker was Laurence Harwood, OBE, one of the Godsons of C. S. Lewis. Read More ›
In 1985 Vermont publisher Chelsea Green brought out the handsomely illustrated 80-page book The Man Who Planted Trees: The inspirational tale of a man who planted a forest, one acorn at a time by Jean Giono. It is so popular that it has been translated into a dozen languages; today the English version is available in hardcover, paperback, audiotape, and Read More ›
In mid-February 2000, President Clinton gave his first live online news interview a day ahead of a major White House meeting on computer security. Despite CNN’s screening of messages from the public, the following one slipped through, disguised to look as if it were a remark from President Clinton: “Personally, I would like to see more porn on the Internet.”A Read More ›
Edited by Joseph Pearce (Fount HarperCollins, 1999, 204 pp, pb) From “Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: An Interview with Walter Hooper” (Joseph Pearce, April 1998) When and where did you first meet Tolkien? I met Tolkien in the first or second week of January 1964. Before that, when I was with Lewis in his house, The Kilns, in the summer Read More ›