An Inklings Weekend
Friday evening April 1 - Sunday noon April 3, 2022
Montreat College, Montreat, NC
Join us in the Misty Mountains (locally known by the elves as the Smoky Mountains) at Rivendell (known locally as Montreat College) near Black Mountain, NC as we consider
"The Formidable Dorothy L. Sayers: Apologist in a Contrarian World"
To call Dorothy L. Sayers "formidable" dangerously understates the case. Consider her career. As a young woman, she was a smashing success in the advertising industry of the 1920s when she took up writing mystery stories for a lark and found that she was making lots of money at it. Yet, her heart always turned back to her Oxford studies with such undertakings as new translations of the medieval works Tristan, The Song of Roland, and her magisterial translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in its difficult triple rhyme scheme. Along the way, she became a successful playwright for stage and the BBC while writing apologetic works that equaled C. S. Lewis in force. This friend of C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams will be the focus of our attention as we gather in Montreat.
Featuring music, worship, food, and good conversation, with:
Crystal Downing serves as co-director of the Wade Center at Wheaton College. Previously, she chaired the English Department at Messiah College. The leading living authority on Dorothy L. Sayers, she has published several award-winning books on Sayers, including Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers and Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Don Kinghas just completed writing the first biography of Major Warren H. Lewis. King is one of the most prolific scholars of C. S. Lewis and those closest to him. He has written a number of books about Lewis, Joy Davidman, and Ruth Pitter, including C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter, Plain to the Inward Eye: Essays on C. S. Lewis, The Letters of Ruth Pitter: Silent Music, The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition, A Naked Tree: Joy Davidman's Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems, Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman, and Sudden Heaven: The Collected Poems of Ruth Pitter, A Critical Edition. King edited the Christian Scholar's Review for many years and teaches literature at Montreat College.
Hal Poe has just finished a three-volume biography of C. S. Lewis which is published by Crossway. He is the author of twenty books that deal with how the gospel intersects culture; including C. S. Lewis Remembered and The Inklings of Oxford. He won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2009 and was named a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation for his books on science and the Christian faith. Poe serves as Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University.
REGISTRATION FEE - $75, students $25
Includes banquet on Saturday night
Registration form
Meals may be taken at the outstanding local restaurants in Black Mountain
Lodging - Participants may make reservations at a local hotel of your choice in Black Mountain.
For further details, contact Hal Poe at 731-661-5404 or e-mail hpoe@uu.edu