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(Some of this blog article is drawn from the blog of Father Stephen Freeman, an Orthodox priest in the United States, whose continuing...

In 1954, C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter to Cynthia Donnelly about the role of Christianity in his or anyone’s writing: 'We must not of...

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. -Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) As you would know...

Tolkien wrote essays and poetry discussing the importance of art and myth, quite apart from his Middle-earth tales. There’s evidence in...

It was several years after I had first read The Lord of the Rings that I realised that its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a close friend of...

Lewis’s overall conclusion about love comes in his examination of the final of the four loves, Charity, which we are calling the second...

A ‘friend’, according to the dictionary, is ‘a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or...

Eros in Greek Mythology was the god of love, the son of Aphrodite. His Roman equivalent, known to us as a blind cherub with wings and a...

Affection is defined by the dictionary as ‘a gentle feeling of fondness or liking’. It comes from Middle English, via Old French from...

Reading The Chronicles of Narnia to my daughter reminded me that there is one place in Narnia that I would like to live. It’s a peculiar...