Special Events
Each year, the Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis & Friends sponsors a guest speaker for the C.S. Lewis Chapel, other invited speakers and various events. Previous chapel speakers have been Walter Hooper, Louis Markos, Bruce Edwards, and Marjorie Mead. Other invited speakers have included Jerry Root, Peter Kreeft, and Dale Ahlquist. Panel discussions of The Lord of the Ring movies have been some of our most popular events.
This year, we are pleased to announce three invited speakers:
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Bishop Edward S. Little of the Diocese of Northern Indiana
"Encountering C.S. Lewis: My Journey from New Convert to Bishop"
C.S. Lewis & Friends Society Meeting
7:00 pm. Friday, February 22, 2008
Flood Room, Zondervan Library
Taylor University Upland campus
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Dr. Michael Ward
Author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
7:00 pm. Thursday, February 28, 2008
Carruth Recital Hall, Metcalfe-Modelle Visual Arts
Taylor University Upland campus
An excerpt from Dr. Ward's webpage www.planetnarnia.com:
The book argues that Lewis secretly based the Chronicles of Narnia on the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos.
But is it really possible that Lewis could have invented and kept such a secret? Why would he have been so interested in medieval cosmology? What are the seven heavens? How come nobody has noticed this secret before? Does this hidden theme matter?
Here you will find answers to these and many other questions. I hope they will inspire you to read the Narnia Chronicles and Planet Narnia itself, if you haven't done so already.
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Ken Myers
Host and producer of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal.
"Modernity and the Magician's Bargain: Why Lewis Believed that Science Must Repent"
7:00 pm Friday, March 7, 2008
Mitchell Theatre, Metcalfe-Modelle Visual Arts
Taylor University Upland campus
Mars Hill Audio is a bimonthly audio magazine that examines issues in contemporary culture from a framework shaped by Christian conviction. Mr. Myers serves as a contributing editor for Christianity Today, and his published writings include All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture (Crossway Books: 1989), and (as editor) Aspiring to Freedom: Commentaries on John Paul II's Encyclical "The Social Concerns of the Church" (William B. Eerdmans: 1988). He has also written for numerous periodicals, including The Wilson Quarterly, TableTalk, Discipleship Journal, World, Crisis, First Things, The Washington Times, and The World & I. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland, where he studied film theory and criticism, and of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
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We are also pleased to announce a special presentation of Prince Caspian:
Readers' Theatre production of Prince Caspian
7:00 p.m Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Carruth Recital Hall, Smith Hermanson Music Center
Taylor University Upland campus
Campus personalities will participate, reading the script of excerpts chosen from Prince Caspian by Professor Thom Satterlee.