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You are invited you to join this free webinar with C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation featuring Professor Simon Horobin of Oxford's Magdalen College. January 25, 2025 10 AM PT/1 PM ETThe webinar will feature a presentation and an interview with Simon along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience.Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. He has written extensively on medieval linguistic and literary topics; recent books include Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language (OUP, 2019), The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). He has lectured widely on C.S. Lewis and was curator of the exhibition C.S. Lewis: Words and Worlds (Magdalen College, 2024) and is the author of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford (Bodleian, 2024). He has also lectured and published on J.R.R. Tolkien, including contributions to the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2006) and, most recently, ‘Never trust a Philologist: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the place of Philology in English Studies’, Review of English Studies 75 (2024), 209-226 ... See MoreSee Less

C.S. Lewis's Oxford - A Webinar with Simon Horobin Tickets | CS Lewis Foundation

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Bay Area Lewis and Tolkien fans: Friday, January 31st, & Saturday, February 1st: Come in costume for a film clip and a panel discussion each night from 7 pm to 9 pm. Friday, January 31st, will be film clips and a panel on The True Origins of Star Wars. Saturday night will feature clips from The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films and a panel on The Tolkien You Never Knew. You can attend one or the other or both; admission is just a suggested donation of $20 per person. There will be prizes for the best costumes each night! Visit ideasworthsaving.org to get all the details and register today ... See MoreSee Less

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Attention, those in the SF Bay Area: You are invited to an exciting two-day academic conference called Fahrenheit 2451 on January 31st and February 1st at the Internet Archive: ideasworthsaving.org. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury imagines a “living library” where people memorize classic books to preserve them from the flames. From Tolkien’s and C.S. Lewis’s mythologies to the epic tales of Star Wars, great works carry timeless truths. What books, films, or art would YOU preserve for the next few hundred years? Come to Fahrenheit 2451 and let us know! Whether you’re a scholar or a passionate fan, this conference is for you. Each day, there are paper presentations, panel discussions, and workshops. Explore knowledge preservation, dive into timeless texts, films, and art; and find inspiration in like-minded communities. Visit ideasworthsaving.org to get all the details and register today. ... See MoreSee Less

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C. S. Lewis Society of California

4 weeks ago

Joseph Loconte and his team traveled to Addison's Walk at Oxford to film this video recounting the remarkable conversation between C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien that led directly to Lewis's conversion to Christianity. ... See MoreSee Less

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis: Their Great Debate

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On September 19, 1931 an important conversation occurred that shook C.S. Lewis to his very core.Preorder my new book - click here: https://a.co/d/92hgz2oDire...

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We are an independent, non-profit, Christian, educational and cultural organization stimulating and advancing public interest in the life, works, and ideas of C. S. Lewis

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In his professional writings, Lewis was a literary critic, novelist, poet, essayist, and man of letters. His work captures a grandeur, precision, wit, imagination and insight seldom matched by others, and in the process, he articulately critiques the materialism, reductionism, scientism, collectivism, nihilism, statism, and de-humanization of the modern era.

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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
—The Abolition of Man
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
—The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
“Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
—Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con