The following is a conversation I had with Dr. Joseph Ricke from Taylor University about the 2016 C.S. Lewis Colloquium being held on their campus June 2-5. He also gives some details about their C.S. Lewis Center which has a wide range of books from Lewis and several other authors. The featured speakers for this Colloquium are Dr. …
Bandersnatch (Diana Glyer)
2015 has seen the release of several books on, or related to, the Inklings. Are you ready for the most unique among them? Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings is a forthcoming title (at the time of this post) due out by the end of November. William O’Flaherty …
Discussing Mere Christianity (Dr. Devin Brown)
Saying Mere Christianity is a book that has influence millions of people would not only be obvious, but also an understatement! Yet, despite it’s nearly universal appeal, there are those who have difficulty “getting into it.” This might be because the material is over 70 years old (they were first radio talks in the 1940’s) and they …
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CSLIS 2015 Panel Discussion (Part Two)
This is the second and final part of the panel discussion from the 2015 C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society (CSLIS) Conference that was at the end of March. The keynote speakers were Dr. Jerry Root and Dr. Diana Glyer. William O’Flaherty moderated the session that was held at Grove City College (in PA) this year (the annual conference …
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CSLIS 2015 Panel Discussion (Part One)
Dr. Jerry Root and Dr. Diana Glyer were the keynote speakers for the 18th Annual Conference of the C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society (CSLIS) which is held at a different location each year. For 2015, it was at Grove City College (in PA) at the end of March. This is the first of a two-part …
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Lewis Resources on Dr. Diana Glyer’s Site
If you have explored the places I’ve highlighted since the beginning of the year you’ve probably noticed many Lewis scholars have websites. Some have material just on Lewis, or like the one this, they have other material in additional to the content related to Lewis. While Dr. Diana Glyer has more than Lewis information than I’ll spotlight here, that just points to the importance of exploring the rest of her site.
Several years ago Glyer contributed to a book where she provided a bibliography of every book-length study of C.S. Lewis. Listed as a main heading on her site as C.S. Lewis Bibliography, this area (as she notes on the page) has a goal of providing “a brief description of the content and also a sense of the quality and importance of this book.