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Fellow writers, and appreciators of writing, I wanted to pass along a brief clip by radio announcer Ira Glass. What he has to say is very applicable to writing, and he says it very well. As someone who has had two books published, and is hoping to make a habit of it, I want to encourage you all...

C.S. Lewis' series of BBC radio talks, eventually gathered into his classic Mere Christianity, were largely lost because the tapes on which they were recorded were recycled. But one survives, and someone has made it into a YouTube video. Here it is - the sound quality is surprisingly good...

I'm re-reading a wonderful set of books right now by Leanne Payne (The Healing Presence and Restoring the Christian Soul - I highly recommend them), and in one of them Leanne observes that we humans understand reality through symbols. She points out that the Scriptures provide us a true and...

Wasn't quite sure where to put this, so I'm putting it here. I'm now free to publish the cover of my upcoming novel, published by Ignatius Press and to be released on October 7th. It's called The Accidental Marriage, and the working subtitle (which won't make it onto the work itself) was "An...

Since the Forum has started hosting banner ads to help defray the costs, I've seen some interesting ones flashed up for me. These, of course, are based on our browsing histories, and I'm interested in quirky or unexpected ones people see. For me, I just saw one for AARP - anyone else see that one?

Seriously. In downtown DeWitt, Michigan. Somehow, I never thought of him as the entrepreneurial type...

One of the marks of being truly educated is understanding that all people throughout history have not thought the same way. The uneducated man is a prisoner of his own time and culture. He presumes that everyone else who ever lived thought like him and acted from the same motivations and...

I wanted to point out an excellent column that I recently read which uses The Last Battle as a point of departure for a very insightful reflection on the state of truth in today's world. Here it is: http://www.prayerandperspective.com/2013/05/the-truth-the-lie-and-the-last-battle/

This is a thread that I've been contemplating starting for some time, because the topic is intriguing when dealing with secondary worlds such as Narnia. The question of evil in somewhere like Tolkien's Middle Earth turns out to be a non-starter, because if you research it enough, you find that...

Well, I just sent off my most current MS to my publisher! It's a full-length novel this time, unlike the collection I sent off last time, with a rather startling premise. Oddly, because of the subject matter, we couldn't discuss it in detail on this forum, but it's about a couple who discover...

The weeks leading up to Christmas are known to the Christian calendar as Advent. For many years now, we've had a thread in which people could post meditations on the seasons of Advent and Christmas, so I'm continuing the tradition. Interestingly, the First Sunday of Advent is the first day of...

Well, I'm not sure when it will be coming out, but Ignatius Press has just agreed to publish my latest set of stories. It'll be a collection, and only published as an e-book (at least initially). They are seven short stories, and I think will be titled The Ghosts of Midgard Manor. I'll keep...

I've been reading through The Horse and His Boy again, and was struck this time by a theme that's always been present: how humiliated Shasta was during the course of the story. Of course, we all know the tale: the son of poor fisherman Arsheesh learns that he isn't even that – he's a foundling...

I recently ran through The Silver Chair once again, and reconfirmed my appreciation of it as my favorite volume of the Chronicles. I think it the most mature, the most developed from a literary point of view, and the most subtle. It is the first of the stories to have what might be called a...

Some of you know that I've had a book (just one) published. This happened over 20 years ago, and though I keep writing and submitting, I haven't had anything published since. To my immense surprise, my book (or, more specifically, the lead story) turned up in a list of short stories that the...

I don't think the books say anything at all about what Mr. Pevensie does during the war. It's hinted that he's an academic of some type, since he gets work "lecturing in America" during Dawn Treader. Put that together with the fact that during the Blitz (1940-41) he has four children ages...

Forty eight years ago today, on November 22nd, 1963, Clive Staples Lewis passed into eternity. Reporting of his death was overshadowed by the drama of the assassination of American president John Kennedy. Also dying on this day was Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and other works...

It's been a while since I started one of these discussion threads, so I figured I was overdue. I'm currently going through the Chronicles again for the I-don't-know-how-manyth time, and this time I'm reading my original hardbound set that I literally grew up with. They're battered and stained...

C.S. Lewis was not only a scholar and popular apologist, he was a man of uncommon and subtle wit. Scattered throughout his works are many references, often little digs or jabs, that casual reading often misses. Has anyone spotted any of these?

Dang! I want one of these!