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Letters from the Edge of Elfland

C. S. Lewis

Select a Category A Secular Age Advent Apologetics Atheism Beauty Being a Catholic Evangelical Being Catholic Being Deified: Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God Blogging Book Reviews C. S. Lewis Catholic Imagination Catholic Social Teaching Catholicism Christmas Church Calendar Church Fathers Church Life Community Conferences Cosmology Creation Curdled Words Deification Distributism Easter Economics Education Epiphany Essay Extracts Eucharist Faerie Faeriean Metaphysics Fatherhood Films Folk Liturgy Food and Drink G. K. Chesterton Harry Potter J. R. R. Tolkien Jove King Arthur Language Lent Life Literature and Poetry Liturgy Medieval Theology Music My Publications Mythology On the Edges of Elfland Ordinary Time Ordination Parenthood Parish Patristic Theology Pentecost Politics Prayer Racism Radical Orthodoxy Restoration Movement Sacramental Ontology Saints Science Sex and Sexuality Sophiology Stories The Inklings The Radical Catholic Reimagination of Everything Theologians in the Church Theopoetics Thesis Research Uncategorized University of Nottingham What I'm Reading Writing

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June 2019

June 30, 2019

Can You Imagine? Beginning a Definition of the Imagination with Lewis and Coleridge

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2019 The Edge of Elfland Concord, New Hampshire Dearest Readers,...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Turn: Finding Virtue through the Heavens

Eastertide Divine Mercy Sunday The Edge of Elfland Concord, NH Dear Friends, Here is an...

December 2018

December 23, 2018

A New Speaking Engagement: The Catholic Literature Conference in Concord

Advent Time Fourth Sunday in Advent 2018 The Edge of Elfland Concord, NH Dearest Readers,...

December 08, 2018

Finding Meaning in the Night Sky: The Heavens Declare the Glory of the Lord

Advent 8 December 2018 The Edge of Elfland Concord, NH Dearest Readers, One of my...

November 2018

November 02, 2018

The Case for the Cosmic Trilogy: Renaming Lewis’ Science Fiction Trilogy

Ordinary Time All Souls Day 2018 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, NH Dearest Readers, As...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Above Us Only Sky? Malcolm Guite and Michael Ward Discuss the Cosmos with Dante and Lewis

Ordinary Time Michaelmas 2018 The Edge of Elfland Concord, New Hampshire Dearest Readers, Those of...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

New Episode of To Wonder and to Wander: Episode 5 Narnia and Medieval Cosmology

Ordinary Time Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist The Edge of Elfland...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

Lucy Awakens the Trees: Barfield, Lewis, and Malcolm Guite on Language and Reality

David Russell Mosley Lent 25 February 2018 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dearest...

August 2017

August 09, 2017

Fairies and Elves Stopping Construction: On the Care for Our Common Home

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 August 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dearest...

March 2017

March 06, 2017

Entering the Sphere of Jove: Saturn Makes Way for Jupiter in the Works of C. S. Lewis

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 6 March 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

March 02, 2017

Entering the Sphere of Jove: Reflecting on Joy with Lent, C.S. Lewis, and Michael Martin

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 2 March 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

My Rolling English Road to Rome: How J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and Stratford Caldecott Helped Make Me Catholic

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 14 February 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

February 09, 2017

“Living” in a Necrophilic Culture: Reflections on Catherine Pickstock and C. S. Lewis

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 February 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

Ivory Towers and Monks’ Cells: Seeking Wisdom as Public Intellectual

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 25 January 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

January 19, 2017

On the Reader’s Imagination: A Reflection on Reading and Meaning

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 19 January 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

How C. S. Lewis Helped Shape My Vision of Reality: Remembering Lewis on the Day of His Death

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 21 November 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

October 2016

October 06, 2016

Lewis Among the Evangelicals Part 2: Fixing Some Mistakes and Going a Little Deeper

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 6 October 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

October 05, 2016

Lewis among the Evangelicals: Trying to Understand why a Catholic Leaning, Tobacco Smoking, Alcohol Drinking Brit Is So Popular Amongst Evangelicals

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 5 October 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

October 03, 2016

Can Christians Believe Myths? Looking to Tolkien for Some Answers

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 3 October 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

Seeing the Invisible: Reflecting on Elves in Iceland and Native Americans in the US

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 06, 2016

The Eucharist the Basis of Leisure: Some Reflections on Josef Pieper, Fr. Jacques Hamel, and C. S. Lewis

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 5 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 02, 2016

The Atlantis Theory: The Numenorean Connection Between the Works of Lewis and Tolkien

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 2 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

It’s All in Plato: Looking at the Realm of the Forms and the Logoi with Maximus the Confessor and Simon Oliver

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 23 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 22, 2016

Making the Political Other Worse than They Are: C.S. Lewis, Damnation, and Deification

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 22 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 08, 2016

How I’m Doing with C.S. Lewis’ Canon of Western Civilization

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Dominic's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

August 05, 2016

Racism, Our Lady of Faërie, Narnia and More: My Most Popular Posts Since Joining Patheos Catholic

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Oswald's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

How the Midwest Formed My Imagination: A Reflection on My First Visit to My Hometown in Five Years

David Russell Mosley   Ordinary Time Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Edge of Elfland...

July 09, 2016

Waking Up: Taking Solace in the Escape of Fairy-stories and Awaiting the Return of Christ with Joy

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 July 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

July 06, 2016

Longing for England, Longing for Home

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 6 July 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The Magician’s Fairy Godmother: A Follow Up to Are there Elves in C. S. Lewis?

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 30 June 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

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