For years I have been fascinated and enthralled by the love story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. It is not a typical one, not one that would set most young hearts a-flutter, but I’ve always found it beautiful. When they met for the first time in person in 1952, Lewis was already in his mid-fifties, a confirmed bachelor with no intention to marry, an established professor at Oxford, and a world-famous Christian author. Joy Davidman Gresham was a Jewish American, fifteen years younger than...
I was raised on the Chronicles of Narnia, both from having the books read aloud to me by my father and from watching the old BBC mini-series based on them, but until I was an adult I only actually knew three of the books: The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It wasn't until I was in my 20s, and devouring every C.S. Lewis book I could get my hands on, that I finally read the rest of the series. And if you had asked me as a child who my...
This article was originally published in The Catholic News Herald of the diocese of Charlotte.
Last year I somewhat unintentionally started a C.S. Lewis book club in my parish. It originated when a friend and fellow parishioner mentioned that she would like to begin reading Lewis for the first time, as our pastor is very fond of quoting and referencing him.
Loving Lewis’ work as I do, I offered to read the books along with her so that she would have someone to discuss them with and also...
This article was originally published in The Catholic News Herald of the diocese of Charlotte.
I never tire of revisiting certain authors and books, especially C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia. In fact, the older I get, the more I find to love in these books. It makes me appreciate the dedication that Lewis wrote for the first book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” in which he tells his goddaughter that “someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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