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Past Watchful Dragons Registration/Tickets Now Available!

Early registration and a la carte tickets for “‘Past Watchful Dragons’: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis” conference (to be held November 3-5, 2005 on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA) are now available at the website. Please note that tickets to the banquet with and keynote speech by Douglas Gresham (stepson of C.S. Lewis and consultant to the forthcoming The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe film) are extremely limited, and once sold out, will no longer be available either to full conference registrants or a la carte ticket buyers. Many thanks! […]

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TolCon Guest Update! Sword Master Peter Lyon to Appear!

Rebekah sent us word of another Guest of Honor that will be appearing at TolCon: Peter Lyon, the Sword Master and creator of the “hero” swords in Lord of the Rings and “Peter’s Sword” in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, is our newest Guest of Honor at TolCon! […]

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Past Watchful Dragons Conference Update

The website for the “‘Past Watchful Dragons’: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis” conference to be held November 3-5, 2005 on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (which will include The Nashville Symphony’s performance of Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony) has been thoroughly updated to include the specific details about the event. Online registration and ticket sales begin April 1, 2005. The Call for Papers remains open through May 1, 2005. […]

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The Question of God – Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis

Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi, author of The Question of God, the series illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud, a life-long critic of religious belief, and C.S. Lewis, a celebrated Oxford don, literary critic, and perhaps this century’s most influential and popular proponent of faith based on reason. […]

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‘Past Watchful Dragons’ Update

Amy H. Sturgis, Conference Director for ‘Past Watchful Dragons’ writes: Just a quick update re: the “‘Past Watchful Dragons’: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis” conference on November 3-5, 2005, at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. […]

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Child-like Heart

Do not Lucy and Susan see Aslan that way and just want to bury their faces in his Aslan’s mane? Remember the romp between the three of them after Aslan returned from the dead at the stone table? I think that scene represents this side of Jesus that Lewis saw. Which is a part of the reason why I think he wrote these books as allegories for his nephew and nieces. Lewis’s point is to connect them with the reality that Jesus loves you. He has a special place for children in his heart. […]

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‘Best of C.S. Lewis,’ 5-week course, scheduled at church

St. Charles the Martyr Episcopal Church will host a five-week course entitled “The Best of C.S. Lewis: Part Two.” The course is open to the public and attendees need not have attended part one last year. C.S. Lewis, who died in 1963, was a scholar at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. During World War II he was heard weekly on the BBC radio as a voice of comfort and encouragement. […]