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C.S. Lewis Festivals

Belfast launches C.S. Lewis Festival

To coincide with the release by Disney of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – planned as the opening salvo in a money-spinning series of major features – Belfast City Council launches the first C.S. Lewis Festival on December 3. […]

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Beyond the Wardrobe

In October 1945, C.S. Lewis wrote a slightly grumpy reply to someone asking him to do a book on Christianity, in plain language, specifically for workers. Since giving a series of wartime BBC lectures on the faith’s basics, Lewis had become a kind of Christian Answer Man, and frankly, he had other ambitions and projects. “I am nearly 47,” he complained. “Where are my successors?” […]

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A Man and His Myths

In 1949, the year he finished writing “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” C. S. Lewis was leading at least four different lives. His reputation as a Christian apologist had already been launched with several books and a series of BBC radio speeches. He was a charismatic Oxford professor, an expert in Milton and Spenser. […]