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...
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...
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...
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/...
Fascinating, Steve - could you expand on that? Gerald Gardner was (embarassingly) a Conservative -- but most subsequent Wiccans have been and are left-wing. ...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
No, I haven't seen the film, and I'm not even sure if it's showing here yet. I haven't seen the film of "The lion, the witch and the wardrobe" yet either. I'm...
There hasn't been much activity here for a couple of months, and there seems to be a problem with this list at YahooGroups, so I thought I would test it. -- ...
I keep getting this message from YahooGroups -- We're Sorry... We are unable to complete your request at this time. We are aware of this problem and are...
I was inspired by "A multe in the chapter House" to suggest a synchronised blog (synchroblog) of favourite passages from the Inklings, with comments. See: ...
There are some places at at the Charles Williams Society conference at St Hilda's College, Oxford, July 4th-6th, so we are offering them to non-members as well...
Hi Sherry and all ... It is fairly well-known that Lewis's first love was Pagan mythology, before Tolkien converted him to Christianity. So it is not...
Hi all Glad you liked the haiku, Sherry. I ended up writing some more; they are here: http://nemeton.blogspot.com/2007/11/narnia-haiku.html On the subject of...
Hi Steve and all Something easier than a whole 25,000 words for NaNoWriMo... How about a Charles Williams (or other Inkling-themed) haiku? open wardrobe door ...
Here is something I posted a few weeks ago in the alt.books.inklings newsgroup. I'm reposting it here, along with a very good reply I received. My original...
Yesterday I was browsing in a bookshop when I came across a copy of Dennis Wheatley's _The devil rides out_. I had read it a couple of times when I was at...
Last month I issued the same challenge I did a year ago -- to people who liked the novels of Charles Williams, to wrote one in the same style or genre for...
November is national (or international novel-writing month). Last year I challenged Inklings lovers to write a novel in the style of Charles Williams. Very few...
Every month a group of Christian bloggers have a "synchroblog", in which they write blog posts on the same general theme on the same day. This month the theme...
I've just received this announcement from Amazon: As someone who has purchased or rated books by George Macdonald, you might like to know that Adela Cathcart,...
Having started the NeoInklings discussion forum two days ago, we seem to have gathered enough people to hold a discussion or two, so perhaps its time for ...
Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 89. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels,...
Hi, Steve and anyone else who may have joined. I hope I'm using the correct address to post to the list. Question: Yahoo typically strips attachments from...
