Attention Lewisians! The submission window is now open for The CS Lewis Symposium Belfast (TBH 16-17 November 2026). The topic is ‘Babel, Broken Worlds, & The Abolition of Man: CS Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy as Prophetic Warning to the West’. Send us your abstracts! And please share!

In your opinion, should scientists at least consider making test tubes meant to contain world-ending biohazards out of something less fragile and slippery than 1mm glass?

Right. Now that it’s spooky season, it’s time to give this book another go. Started reading this lovely little edition (published in cooperation with The Charles Williams Society) several years ago. Simon the Clerk is a fascinating character. Can’t now recall why I put it down….

For our dear friends at #FairyTaleTuesday and their Gothic theme today have a look at our first publication: a collection of poems influenced by all things Gothic, including the literary concept of 'Gothic Faerie'. Cover art for our electronic version. gothickeatspress.com/a-ride-…

C.S. Lewis explicitly said that Aslan was not an analogy or allegory or symbol but a "supposal". Suppose the Second Person of the Trinity were incarnate in a different world? What would that story be like. This is crucial - Aslan is to be treated as an imaginative supposal of Christ. He isn't just a character in a story. Of course Narnia is not a sacred text, but Aslan is a sacred idea and ought to be treated as such.

I am thrilled that my Author copies of The Coming of Arthur have arrived from @TheRabbitRoom both the beautiful hardback and the sumptuous slipcase edition. The book is officially released on the 9th November but can be preordered from Rabbitroom now.

It's beginning to feel a lot like the 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. John Keats wrote 'To Autumn' on this date 19 September 1819. It would be his last major poem before his death in 1821 at the age of 25.

Ironically, the final Narnia book is literally a warning about a Fake Aslan who is actually a demon

A pithy excerpt from the late-great lay apologist F.J. Sheed, from his book, What Difference Does Jesus Make’ (1971)

It made my daughter so happy that PK clearly didn't use AI for his flyer. And I quote: "This kind of campy poster is always more effective than AI slop and it's just as easy to make."

We're remembering Pauline Baynes today on her 104th birthday with her map of C.S. Lewis's Narnia. According to her website she created this map in 1972 for Puffin Books UK. Baynes was also the original illustrator for The Chronicles of Narnia published between 1950 and 1956.

C'est parti, la saison 3, sur le Prince Caspian, est lancée ☺️ youtu.be/X1cJYwlZvOE?si=ZJSo…

A poem by Wendell Berry, ‘The Sycamore’. A favourite line, rich with meaning: ‘It has gathered all accidents into its purpose.’ If that couldn’t double as a description of what God does…

“Signs of autumn - the reddening leaf, the chill in the early-morning air, the Misty evenings. In a year of drought the leaves may change before their time. Last night the waiter put the celery on with the cheese, and I knew that summer was over.” ~A.A.Milne #September1st

John Atkinson Grimshaw ( 1836-1893) Another beautiful painting by him ‘Autumn Gold’ Popular last time I posted so a treat for today. I loved the streets he painted. A friend lived in one of the houses ‘Fern Villa’ beautiful Victorian house I grew up knowing his work

At my beginning I believed, like you, Something would come of all my green and blue. Mortals remember, looking on the thing I am, that I, even I, was once a spring. LATE SUMMER by C. S. Lewis #poetrycommunity #poetry #aging

“[W]e make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.”

Some very exciting CSLI Belfast symposium news: the one and only Prof John Lennox will be delivering a talk at the symposium in November. The topic of the conference is ‘Babel, Broken Worlds, and the Abolition of Man: CS Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy as Prophetic Warning to the West’ 🔥

Dear Jordan. I grew up protestant my whole life. Read the Bible virtually everyday since 6th grade. Read lots of Luther, Calvin, MacArthur, Sproul, etc. In 2017, I began reading the ancient Christians, and realized they were Catholic. Then I read the Catholic Church’s teachings as articulated by HER. That’s when I realized virtually everything I’d heard about Catholic belief—especially with regard to Mary—was false. Catholics do not, and have never worshipped Mary. Worship involves sacrifice, and Christian worship is and has always been the sacrifice of the Eucharist—Christ’s sacrifice offered to the Father—and that is only and everywhere offered to God alone. NEVER Mary. That would be blasphemy and idolatry. She is a creature—the most exalted of God’s creature, but a creature nonetheless. Nevertheless, we venerate Her as the New Eve, the New Ark of the Covenant, the Daughter of Zion, and the Queen of the Messianic Kingdom of Her Son. As such, She is the chief prayer warrior of Christ’s Kingdom. As She herself said in the Magnificat in Luke, “My soul magnifies the Lord.” That is Her role. She always and everywhere brings people closer to Her son. That’s why so many Marian apparitions over the millennia have brought so many new converts, or increased devotion to Christ. Since devoting my life to Her service, I have never known or loved Christ more. I’ve never had as much victory over sin. I’ve never been as willing to do whatever must be done to attain heaven. Because Mary is a goddess and I worship Her? Banish the thought. That would horrify me and Her. Rather, no one is as united to Her Son as She is. That’s why Her prayers are so efficacious. “The prayer of a righteous man avails much.” She is the only creature in history that, with God the Father, can refer to Jesus as “our Son.” That intimacy with Christ is why I venerate Her, and how She has brought me closer to Him than ever before.

Unfortunately, due to unexpected difficulties earlier this year, we had to abandon our original project. However, we still want to honour Mary Shelley's The Last Man with 3-5 essays, to be published in December. Reach out via our website if you're interested in writing something.

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