Narnian Eyes: A Sonnet Sequence
“War and Peace” He fought in battle, later crown’d a king, he was yet a boy when he took command. Peter train’d in swordplay every morning to be the greatest swordsman in all the land.…
Tag: C.S. Lewis
The Inside is Bigger than the Outside: A Christmas Thought from Narnia and for Our World Too
“Always winter and never Christmas.” This is the condition where we first discover Narnia in The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. It is not so much blanketed in white as smothered in it, frozen…
Identity: What We Do Changes Who We Are
This thing about identity—there’s more here than meets the eye, more here than most psychologists talk about, more here than we can understand, and what I’m going to present is more questions than answers. But…
Biographies of the Inklings
Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (1911 – 1981) was born in New Zealand. He studied at Auckland University before getting a scholarship to Oxford University. Apparently he was often forgetful and considered himself lucky to have…
Ladies and Gents: An Encounter with the Inklings
I’ve been keeper of the Bird and Baby since the last tender sold the grounds to the university. I was a spry young fellow then, eager to get myself established in the world, so when…