The Narnia Secret

By |2025-07-20T18:45:55-05:00July 20th, 2025|Categories: Books, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Senior Contributors|

Fr. Michael Ward believes that each of the seven chronicles of Narnia can be seen to echo the seven planets of medieval cosmology in their themes, characters, and mood. In The Narnia Code, Father Michael Ward has abridged and made more accessible Planet Narnia, his doctoral thesis on C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. The Narnia [...]

C.S. Lewis and the A.I. Apocalypse

By |2025-05-27T19:24:26-05:00May 27th, 2025|Categories: Artificial Intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Dwight Longenecker, Senior Contributors, Technology|

Must Artificial Intelligence open the door to "that hideous strength" described by C.S Lewis? Time will tell, though I suspect the answer to the juggernaut that is Artificial Intelligence may well be the Babel scenario. In recent online postings, writer Rod Dreher has been commenting on various predictions of an apocalypse caused by Artificial Intelligence. [...]

Nostalgia for the Future: Antiquity & Eternity

By |2025-04-09T14:31:17-05:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Conservatism, England, Featured, History, Imagination, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oxford University, Time, Timeless Essays|

The experience of nostalgia is a feeling of beauty’s remoteness, but only because it is so far in the future. It is hope. I went for a long walk in Oxford the other night. The city, of course, is always enchanting, but in early summer and at night, it is so the most. When summer [...]

C.S. Lewis on Patriotism

By |2025-02-26T20:21:53-06:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Love, Patriotism|

Love of one’s country stands better when it finds its office within a higher love. Lewis disaggregates ‘love’ into loves In his book The Four Loves, published in 1960, three years before he died in 1963, the Irish/Englishman C.S. Lewis says that, although goodness itself cannot turn bad, things that we associate with goodness and [...]

Towards a Middle Earth Metaphysical

By |2025-02-20T14:17:37-06:00February 20th, 2025|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Dwight Longenecker, Nature, Philosophy, Science, Senior Contributors, Theology|

Whether they be fairies, gnomes, cryptids, aliens, or elves, what are these creatures about which man has written for centuries? C.S. Lewis explained that the medieval mind understood them to be inhabitants of a kind of middle realm between the physical and the spiritual regions. But is this "Middle Earth" real? No matter our chosen [...]

The Breach Between Heaven and Earth

By |2024-12-03T16:35:14-06:00December 3rd, 2024|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Heaven, Michael De Sapio, Senior Contributors|

The contrast between heaven and earth is one of the most pervasive concepts in religious language, a commonplace so common that we rarely stop to think about its meaning. What does it mean, in mythopoetic terms and in literal terms? To put it plainly, what is heaven and what is earth? I was blessed to [...]

C.S. Lewis, Langston Hughes, & the Haunting of America

By |2024-11-28T16:49:00-06:00November 28th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, C.S. Lewis, Literature, Myth, Poetry, Timeless Essays|

All nations need reminders that even their best ideals, though worth defending, do not earn them chosen nation status. Reading C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” in light of each other could rouse those in need of both a restoration of confidence in the goodness of the American [...]

C.S. Lewis as Mere Christian

By |2024-11-21T19:27:51-06:00November 21st, 2024|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, C.S. Lewis, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity” is a model work in the muddled and subjective world of ideologies, state-led terrorisms, gulags, holocausts, and killing fields. Sprinkled with timeless wisdom and profound insights, it is about fundamental aspects of Christianity and seeks to go beyond denominational differences without creating yet another new denomination. After C.S. Lewis converted to [...]

“Nefarious”: Screwtape Meets Hannibal Lecter

By |2024-11-13T16:51:55-06:00November 13th, 2024|Categories: Audio/Video, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Film, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

Reading "The Screwtape Letters" can be a creepy and unsettling experience because C.S. Lewis does not merely take us into the head of the human who is experiencing temptation, but into the malevolent mind of the devil himself. This same psycho-dramatic technique is employed by the directors of the recently released horror film, "Nefarious," in [...]

Walking With C.S. Lewis

By |2024-08-19T18:04:39-05:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: Books, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Featured, Joseph Pearce, Timeless Essays|

I have always been a keen walker, or “hiker” in the American idiom. I have ambled, rambled, scrambled or otherwise perambulated across large swathes of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland; I have roamed around Europe; and I have even ventured, since my arrival on this side of the Pond fourteen years ago, to traipse through [...]

The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination

By |2024-07-19T21:33:44-05:00July 19th, 2024|Categories: Beauty, Benjamin Lockerd, C.S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, Senior Contributors, T.S. Eliot, Timeless Essays, Truth|

The answers to the errors of modern times need to be given in philosophy and theology, but it is essential that we also experience the truth imaginatively. Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. —Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” These famous lines of Keats [...]

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