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Caedmon’s Call, “The High Countries”
A bus station, in the steam from the rain In this line of pale strangers, should I go or stay? The whole field of vision, fades beneath me now And the houses spread for a million miles, in this gray...
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The Marriage of Now and Then: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce
Last spring, after I read Rob Bell’s bestseller Love Wins, I knew I had to go back to C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce. Though often missed by reviewers, Bell’s work is shot through with Lewis’ influence....
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An Old Review of an Album I Still Like: “High Countries” by Caedmon’s Call
This review appeared in Living Light News a few years ago, but the weblink is now lost in cyber dust. Caedmon’s Call are an American acoustic rock band and fellow pilgrim’s in Narnia who draw on...
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How I Learned to Speak British, or A Review of David Downing’s “Looking for...
I find myself in the rather delicate position of critiquing the personal work of one with whom I’ve supped—ah, there it is, I’ve caught myself speaking in 1940s Oxford English again. It has been...
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What We Believe is What We Become, from The Magician’s Nephew
As far as I understand it, The Magician’s Nephew was the Narnia Chronicle C.S. Lewis struggled most to write. He began it after The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe became popular in 1949, but he...
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The Many Names of The Great Divorce: Finding that Elusive Title
I recently competed in the 3 Day Novel Contest, a literary marathon where one writes for 72 hours, hoping to finish an entire novel in that time. As midnight on the last day approached, I had completed...
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“Once Upon a Dreary Era”: A Review of Peter Kreeft’s Critical Essay On C.S....
Anyone who has heard a lecture from the characteristic voice of Peter Kreeft—and there are a number available free on iTunesU—will hear his humour behind the words of his dozens of books. His books are...
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Peter Kreeft on Hell (Hell Series Part 2)
Peter Kreeft is a Catholic philosopher, C.S. Lewis scholar, and a contributor to the genre of Screwtape-style letters. This piece is an excerpt from his Fundamentals of Faith, and is available here....
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Taking a Breath before a Second Dive
Here I sit, on the edge of 1937. Not literally, of course. This is not a blog from the 30s, waiting until now to see digital light. But in my reading of C.S. Lewis’ work, this is where I am, just about...
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“But I Don’t Wanna Be Susan!” Guest Post by Beth Oliver
This summer I posted a quick write up of my project of reading Lewis chronologically thus far, called “Taking a Breath Before a Second Dive.” In the comments a great discussion broke out, and one of...
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Simon Vance’s Reading of “The Great Divorce” (an Audiobook Review)
I am, I admit, a fan of audiobooks. I always have a book in my ear, whether I’m walking to work or hiking across campus or doing odd jobs at home. I alternate between a professional book, a lecture...
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“I’d Rather be Damned than Go along With You!” The Big Man in The Great Divorce
Readers here will know that I’ve blogged about bullying before. C.S. Lewis himself struggled with the culture of bullying at the schools he went to. In this intriguing chapter of The Great Divorce,...
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A Level of Hell that Dante Forgot: A Note from Discworld
Terry Pratchett is about as weird and wonderful an author as I could ever want. A master world-builder, he trades in irony, parody, and satire the way the TV show Glee trades in stereotypes. And yet,...
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Guest Blog: C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: William O’Flaherty’s Interview with...
William O’FlahertyPhoto courtesy of Lancia Smith http://www.lanciaesmith.com William O’Flaherty is the intrepid host of the “All About Jack” podcast and the Essential C.S. Lewis website. He interviewed...
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“Choosing Heaven: A Choice You Can Watch in the Making”: A Guest Sermon by...
As part of our ongoing occasional series on The Great Divorce, I have invited Doug Jackson to share a devotional reflection on this classic C.S. Lewis book. It takes the form of a homily, a sermon on...
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Love That Is Not Love: The Character of Pam in The Great Divorce
The Great Divorce begins not with characters but with caricatures. We begin with cartoons of a short man with a superiority complex, a cheated hysterical woman, a vacant liberal clergyman, a unisex...
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Finding that Elusive Title: The Many Names of The Great Divorce
I am about 50/50 when it comes to titling my own work. Sometimes the title is patently obvious; other times it is a struggle to come up with a pithy phrase that captures what I’ve just written. I have...
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“Sarah Smith, of Golders Green” by Hannah Eagleson
In the ongoing series on The Great Divorce we come to Sarah Smith–certainly one of the more intriguing, engaging, troubling, and freeing characters in C.S. Lewis’ fiction. In this week’s guest post,...
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The Heavenly Horses of C. S. Lewis: A Guest Blog by Leslie Baynes
One of the most memorable scenes in The Great Divorce, and the only one where a shade accepts grace and enters heaven, features a horse. At the end of chapter 11, the Ghost enslaved to the lizard Lust...
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The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce”
This is dangerous territory–partly because some have trumbled into the “real” meaning of this or that book and caused an awful mess. When read this way the Bible most especially becomes secret code for...
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