C.S.Lewis

C.S.Lewis is one of the most unlikely children’s authors you could ever meet. He was an academic all of his life, teaching first at Oxford and later at Cambridge. He was not married till he was over fifty, and had no children of his own, nor any nephews or nieces. His closest friends were other […]

Paper given at the Annual Conference of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, 2005. In 1959, C.S.Lewis wrote to BBC producer Lance Sieveking, who had apparently proposed that a movie be made of The Chronicles of Narnia. Here is part of Lewis’ response: I am absolutely opposed—adamant isn’t in it!—to a TV version. Anthropomorphic

John Bowen Paper given at a C.S.Lewis Conference, LeTourneau University, March 2004 C.S.Lewis has been one of my most formative influences from the time I read Mere Christianity as a teenager. I was on staff with IVCF for twenty-six years, and the last ten of those were as a campus evangelist, giving lectures on Christian