Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the eldil group: Have you seen the film of "Prince Caspian"? o Yes, and I'd like to see it again o Yes,...
You've seen that the Chronicles of Narnia were based on the seven planets... Now enjoy the Narnian Tarot: http://druidjournal.net/2008/07/10/the-narnian-tarot/...
... I'm glad that the author observes that the Narnian stories are NOT allegory, and correctly points out: === quote === However, The Wardrobe can’t be an...
... This reminds me of a discussion in the alt.books.inklings newsgroup a few years ago. We were talking about Alan Garner's "Elidor". Here's a snippet: ... ...
... Yes, hence Tolkien's thing about applicability (though JRRT hated Narnia, of course) Many people don't seem to realise that there is a big difference...
Hi Steve I've read a couple of Garner's other books (*Strandloper *and *Thursbitch *are excellent) but have never got around to Elidor. The four hallows theme...
Fans of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton might enjoy an interesting tibit dredged from the secret files of the apartheid state, which I've blogged about as...
Fascinating, Steve - could you expand on that? Gerald Gardner was (embarassingly) a Conservative -- but most subsequent Wiccans have been and are left-wing. ...
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Jul 29, 2008 1:42 am
The following eldil poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Have you seen the film of "Prince Caspian"? CHOICES AND RESULTS - Yes, and...
... I don't know much about the politics of Gerald Gardner and Wiccans, so I'll take your word for it. Among Christians, however, it is perhaps most succinctly...
Dear Steve Ah, I see you are using "liberal" in a 'special' sense of the word, to mean vacillating. I think you are completely wrong about this, and here's...
Lewis himself was clearly a Conservative by instinct - but the only time in his Christian writings he refers to thematter he says a Christian society would be...
... Not necessarily. But I do distinguish between political, theological and economic liberalism, which are three different things, and do not necessarily go...
... That surely needs some explanation. He habitually voted for the Conservative Party, and he did so "by instinct" (rather than, say, by thinking about it)? ...
Hi Steve That's a good list, but you missed out Distributism (invented by Catholic social theorists, and I *think* espoused by Chesterton): the distribution of...
... I've been following the discussion there with some interest, and find that though initially there was a rejection of the idea that the Narnian stories are...
Hi Steve Yes, I think you're right. The idea is quite fun as long it is taken lightly and playfully, but once people start trying to force symbols into a box...
... I think these Inklings would not have agreed 100% on your questions, but that they would all agree to the following statement: Life is a good thing,...
Hi Steve and all That's a very interesting question. The Christian response to life on Earth seems to vary from regarding it as a Divine gift all the way to...
Sad news: Pauline Baynes has died. http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/08/10/pauline-baynes-1922-2008/ I love her illustrations of Narnia and...
Things seem fairly quiet around here. Maybe people are just too busy to say anything, but just in case you're bored, I found a rather interesting quiz on the...
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Sep 12, 2008 12:48 am
Spiritual Types Test http://www.upperroom.org/methodx/thelife/test.asp I took it twice. I had serious trouble answering a number of the questions! In about 4-5...
I'm a sage too, but I'm an ENFP (but border line E/I and borderline F/T). It was a fun quiz though! I like the Myers-Briggs types because they are based on...
The following list of frequently asked questions was compiled for the newsgroup alt.books.cs-lewis. It may be a bit out of date, but some of it is still...
An old message from the C.S. Lewis newsgroup, but perhaps still interesting. ... I checked _A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis_ out of the library ...
... I once had to write an essay on the ethics of punishment, based on a book by Moberley on the same name. My conclusion was that punishment was a sort of...
Here's another one, with a variant of the first quote in your mail: "I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted...
Thought it'd be a good idea to introduce myself a little. Some of the names do look a little familiar, though, from the Coinherence (Charles Williams) list....
