Category: Articles
9th Annual SW Regional Retreat: Fling Wide the Gates: C. S. Lewis and the Pursuit of Joy – Oct. 27-30, 2011
September 26th, 2011
This October, join us at the 9th annual C.S. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat for Fling Wide the Gates: C.S. Lewis & the Pursuit of Joy, October 28th-30th. Come to beautiful Camp Allen in Navasota, Texas, to hear Dr. Bruce L. Edwards, author/editor of several significant books on C.S. Lewis, as he joins us in celebrating [...]
Celebrating C. S. Lewis
April 9th, 2011
In November, 2000, Jerry Root (Wheaton College) and I were interviewed together on a South Bend, Indiana, Christian TV show that was celebrating the birthday of C. S. Lewis with special programming. We discussed a wide variety of topics concerning C. S. Lewis, including Narnia, and his ongoing impact worldwide. This video was recently rediscovered [...]
Effigy or Elegy: C. S. Lewis and Rob Bell — A Review of LOVE WINS
March 28th, 2011
By Megan J. Robinson Associate Editor, C. S. Lewis Review Editor, Traveling the Far Country. So, I’ve read Love Wins (LW). It’s an easy, quick read, and after finishing and thinking about it, my initial reaction is: We may as well burn C.S. Lewis in effigy, and deny the phenomenal impact he’s had on many [...]
Not So Fast: C. S. Lewis’s Legacy
January 19th, 2011
Note this article appeared in Q as “A Writer for Restless Hearts: Discerning C.S. Lewis’ Legacy” (January, 2011). By Bruce Edwards In July, 1946, Beloit College poet-in-residence, Chad Walsh, published a provocative profile of Clive Staples Lewis in the Atlantic Monthly, bringing to an American readership the first coherent, incisive bio-critical attention to Lewis’s life [...]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Now Showing
December 4th, 2010
Looking for a Christmas gift book that provides an introduction to the life and imagination of C. S. Lewis and a thematic overview of all the Narnian tales? Please consider my Not a Tame Lion (Tyndale, 2005), available from yours truly, order information here. For group study resources by me available online for Narnia, click [...]
Jack Lewis: This is Your Life–Happy 112th Birthday!
November 29th, 2010
My annual birthday tribute to Jack. On the Occasion of the 112th Anniversary of C. S. Lewis’s Birth (November 29, 1898-November 22, 1963) Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Professor of English and Africana Studies Bowling Green State University Renowned author and critic C. S. “Jack” Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland 112 years ago today. [...]
Literary Time Travel: C. S. Lewis’s “Day Job”
August 5th, 2010
by Dr. Bruce L. Edwards C. S. Lewis had a day job. It is strange to think of it that way, for most of us perhaps imagine the prolific Lewis investing countless hours at his desk crafting whimsical children’s fantasies or creating formidable arguments to advance “mere Christianity.” In fact, he was a renowned scholar [...]
How Can We Live with Our Past?
March 30th, 2010
INTRODUCTION: What is the relationship of the saved person to his or her past? How do the deeds, events, circumstances, blessings, cursings, sins, preferences, habits, etc. of our past lives, and those of our families, impinge upon and affect the present and our daily lives? Upon what can we blame failure, sickness, or unconquered sin? To what can we attribute success, health, and fruitfulness?
