Roger White

Warden at The Kilns, former home of C. S. Lewis • Current Research: The Library of C. S. Lewis • Professor Emeritus

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

Speaking with Pope Leo XIV on the papal plane about JRR Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings after he quoted Gandalf in his first encyclical

[Roger White @4RogerWhite]

@canterburypress @malcolmguite Take up the tale

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This is worse and should be abolished.

[Andrew Snyder @Andrewnsnyder]

Whoever did this should be prosecuted.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

The foundations for the new library at @Tyndale_House go deep below here. We aim to have every book necessary for research on the Bible. Now planning the grand opening for October 2027 (DV) but in the interim 60% of books and 40 study spaces are still available on site.

[Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts]

Another fun addition to display on the Inklings bookshelves

[Roger White @4RogerWhite]

Happy Birthday to Beverly Cleary who would have been 110 this week.

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Happy birthday to Beverly Cleary who is 103 today!
@beverlycleary16 #BeverlyCleary #HenryHuggins #TheMouseandtheMotorcycle #NewberyMedal #Ramona #Strider #Aragon #AragonII #LOTR

[Roger White @4RogerWhite]

From "The Jerusalem Post"...C. S. Lewis in Israel

https://t.co/hLbnzdYj1t

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"Turning to the bookstall, I picked out an Everyman in a dirty jacket."

C. S. Lewis's "Phantastes"

[Andrew Snyder @Andrewnsnyder]

In 1916, seemingly on a whim, C.S. Lewis picked up Phantastes at a book stall in Leatherhead. This is the book that Lewis says baptized his imagination and set him on a very different path than his espoused materialism would have allowed.

Without this stroke of providence, we might not have the Lewis we read today. It is also very possible that we would not have the Tolkien we read today.

[Roger White @4RogerWhite]

The Warren H. Lewis typewriter has returned to The Kilns, the home of C.S. Lewis, after a year on loan to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Many thanks to Brenna LaGrange, Senior Collections Manager at the Museum, who personally delivered it.

@museumofBible #thekilns

[Roger White @4RogerWhite]

Don W. King speaking last night on the topic, “Almost Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Warren Hamilton Lewis.”

[Annie Crawford @annielcrawford]

The AI digital alchemy of our own age makes the Renaissance metallurgy look humble and reserved. They were just trying to turn lead into gold. We are trying to turn silicone into God.

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Alister McGrath speaking last night on his new book, “Science and Religion in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: The Quest for the Best Mental Model of the Universe” (OUP).

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Signage added

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I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less clicked by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Another Inklings-insprired Rabbit Room, a new literary-themed wine lounge near Des Moines, Iowa.
https://t.co/sPVldu6k3t via @DMRegister

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Renovation work on Oxford's Eagle & Child will continue throughout 2026, with plans for reopening in 2027.

🦅&👶 https://t.co/nDWatK5NRj

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“The Pelican and Young” became “The Eagle and Child” and then became “The Eagle” (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) https://t.co/jdsxHreFQ9

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Dorothy L. Sayers
Crime and Christianity
https://t.co/VzwACMBx1G

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Great bakery items in Houston, Texas

https://t.co/CDBaKnifNz

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

Born #OTD in 1898: C. S. Lewis, creator of Narnia!

This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian.

Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁

Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160