The Princess and the Paladin
Part I The Paladin returned one morning to a piece of dreadful news. It was the kind of tidings that kept him from the pews. For though a knight and champion, he was first…
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William Lindsay Gresham and the Inklings: A Look at Nightmare Alley
Today marks 114 years since novelist William Lindsay Gresham was born in Baltimore. Nightmare Alley has a strange place in Inklings scholarship discussions. Published in 1946, it was written by William Lindsay Gresham, the first…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 8
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment here.…
Landon Loftin Interview on What Barfield Thought
Owen Barfield is a curiously underrated thinker. He was a lifelong friend of C.S. Lewis, who dedicated The Allegory of Love to Barfield, calling him “wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.” Lewis dedicated The…
Where Christian Fantasy Started: Remembering Robert Siegel
Robert “Bob” Harold Siegel (1939-2012) is one of the most underrated Christian writers of recent years. As a poet, he wrote about nature with an intimacy that few have matched. One reviewer observed, “There is…
A Whole New World
By Amanda Pizzolatto You’re walking towards a slightly busy street. Cars zoom by at the intersection. A trolley dings as it goes by. People are walking past, some chatting on their phones, others talking to…
A Summer Memory
Let me tell you what beauty is. It’s April rains and May flowers. It’s a song on the radio that brings back wonderful memories. It’s in the pages of well-worn books. It’s the dawn of…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 7
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment here.…
Inklings Scholar Interview: Charlie W. Starr
Dr. Charlie W. Starr (D.A., Middle Tennessee University) has an unusual specialty in C.S. Lewis studies. He’s an expert on C.S. Lewis’ handwriting—what it looks like and how it changed over time. This makes Starr…
Garden Church
By Hannah Skipper “I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes so…