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Faith: Finding God amid depression
DEPRESSION sears the soul. So do the memories that can prompt it — memories that can remain with you for a lifetime, no matter how hard you try to tell yourself that they belong in the past and should stay there.I have an…
C. S. Lewis and myths of dying gods
Supposal v. AllegoryJohn Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress; C. S. Lewis, Letters A COMMON criticism of the Narnia stories is that they are merely allegories — generally considered a rather limited art form, in which everything…
Servants of the Servant King
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — Whose Quest Is It Anyway? C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King IMAGINE being one of the Inklings. The odds are that you aren’t going to…
Church, synagogue, and mosque under one roof
ONE of the religious success stories in my lifetime has been interfaith dialogue. What is more, it is about to enter a radical new stage. After centuries of ignoring each other, castigating each other, or even persecuting one…
All the music of the spheres
Tolkien and the Music of Creation J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion I REMEMBER the rush of excitement when I first heard of The Silmarillion, and then the thrill when it was published, in 1977, four years after Tolkien’s…
Let a preamble be your legacy, too
I SHOULD have made a will 20 years ago. When I eventually got round to it, what shook me out of my complacency was the prospect of doing it theologically. By that, I don’t primarily mean leaving money for theological purposes…
Not winning but taking part
Frodo and Gandalf — All We Have to Decide Is. . .?J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Battle of Maldon YOU would not be alone in thinking that we are living at a moment when things seem to be in the balance,…
Lent series: Faith in the unbelievable
Return to Cair ParavelTHE second Narnia story, Prince Caspian, tells of the children’s return to Narnia. It opens with them sitting at a railway station awaiting the trains that will take them back to their boarding schools…
Will your anchor truly hold?
AS LAST year’s now unimaginably dry spring was followed by a dry summer, the canals started to dry up — and the place to find water, but not too much water, was on England’s rivers. As we travelled up from Leicester on to the…
Lent series: Courage to resist temptation
BETWEEN 1930 and 1947, a group of men — academics, editors, doctors, students — met twice weekly at Magdalen College and in the pubs of central Oxford, their regular being the Eagle and Child. Imagine sitting across the bar…
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