We wander a bit outside the usual science themes, but we are not lost; we are with Tolkien.Read more…
Book Review: The Fellowship
The Fellowship traces the literary lives of the four principle Inklings (Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, and Williams) the literary club they formed and its impact on literature, faith, and culture.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Myth Made Fact
I love reading fairy-tales and fantasy. That’s probably become evident from the very first devotion looking at creativity according to Milbank. There is a good chance that part of my love of these stories from the Perilous Realm, as Tolkien calls it, comes from my upbringing.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: The Fantastic and the Real
David Russell Mosley continues a three part series exploring how human creativity participates in God’s creativity. Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Creativity as Gift
Today, David Russell Mosley begins a three part series exploring how human creativity participates in God’s creativity, a subject he explores as a scholar of theology and writer of poetry.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass Navigating Knowledge: Creativity That Delights
What do chemistry and Tolkien have in common? Dave Vosburg explains at #ScholarsCompassRead more…
Best Christian Book of All Time: Final Four
Over the weekend, voters made their choices for the Final Four in the Best Christian Book of All Time Tournament. Unlike the NCAA’s Final Four, ours was marked by fewer upsets and fewer broken legs. (Please – if you don’tRead more…
Best Christian Book of All Time: Final Elite Eight Selections
Did Dante’s Divine Comedy or C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia make it to the Elite Eight? Read more…
Best Christian Book of All Time: The Sweet Sixteen
After a frantic week of voting, our original field of 64 has been whittled down to the Sweet Sixteen! Check out the Round 2 scores below, download the official bracket, and then head to Facebook to begin voting for ourRead more…
Best Christian Book of All Time: Final First Round Results
The first round results for the Fiction & Poetry and Memoirs, Devotionals, & Spirituality brackets are in. Higher seeds mostly held serve, with one or two upsets to keep things interesting. Here’s the updated bracket for your office pools. Vote for RoundRead more…
How often do you read on a whim?
Today one can take advantage of a free download of Alan Jacobs‘ “How to Read a Book,” a chapter in Liberal Arts For the Christian Life (Edited by Jeffry C. Davis & Philip G. Ryken. Crossway. 2012). Below’s the conclusionRead more…
‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
Promotional Video for Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel. In Chapter 7 of Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel (Ignatius Press. 2010), David C. Downing (R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, PA, & C.S. Lewis ScholarRead more…