Clicking on the year heading below will take you to the details of the events for that year
(where those details exist).
6 January 2021 – W. H. Auden’s “For the Time Being”: An Inkling Folk Epiphany Reading
15 January 2021 – Lewis and Shakespeare: A Conversation with Sarah Waters
22 January 2021 – “What Do they Teach Them!” A Roundtable on Teaching the Inklings
29 January 2021 – Pilgrim of Participation: An Introduction to Owen Barfield (Edwin Woodruff Tait)
5 February 2021 – Deep Down Doom Deeming: The Tolkien Preconference Gathering (see participants below)
6 February 2021 – Tolkien Conference, sponsored by Urbana Seminary (Melody Green, Joe Ricke, Craig Boyd, Sarah Waters, Charlie Starr, and others).
12 February 2021 – “Gotta’ Whole Lotta’ Love”: Lewis and Love (Jason Lepojärvi)
7 May 2021 – An Introduction to The Mabinogi or Why the Matter of Wales Matters: A Visit with Rebecca Fox Blok
14 May 2021 – Under the Mercy: Charles Williams In Memoriam
21 May 2021 – Lewis and the Ladies of Philosophy: C. S. Lewis, Elizabeth Anscombe, and the Socratic Club
28 May 2021 – Seven Sentences: Jennifer Woodruff Tait’s Brief Guide to Christian History
4 June 2021 – NOLLOQUIM TWO: Reminder and Remainder
11 June 2021 – Dorothy and Jack: A Transformative Friendship
18 June 2021 – The Great Divorce: Anthony Lawton’s “Mesmerizing” Solo Performance
25 June 2021 – Beyond the Text: In Pursuit of Books with Dan Hamilton
9 July 2021 – Poetry, Play, and Clay: The Whimsical Inkling-Inspired Art of Sarah Emtage
16 July 2021 – Joy Davidman, Poet
23 July 2021 – Style Points: Gary Tandy Unpacks Lewis’s Rhetorical Appeal
30 July 2021 – Death, Dante, and Dorothy L. Sayers: A Conversation with Biographer, Colin Duriez
6 August 2021 – George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”: Difference, Interdependence, Love.
13 August 2021 – (Sir Gawain and) The Green Knight: Text to Screen (Part One)
20 August 2021 – (Sir Gawain and) The Green Knight: Text to Screen (Part Two)
3 September 2021 – The Rooster’s Crow: A Tribute to Walter Wangerin
10 September 2021 – Stone Soup
17 September 2021 – Jack at Home: Behind the Scenes
24 September 2021 – Leaves of Silver: Readings from J. R. R. Tolkien
1 October 2021 – Inklings not Allowed: Recommended Reading
8 October 2021 – The Light Princess: Love, Laughter, and Gravity
15 October 2021 – Happy 70th, Prince Caspian: A Complete Reading
22 October 2021 – “Learning in War Time”: From Pulpit to Print
29 October 2021 – The Lion and the Vampire: The Inklings and English Horror Films in Conversation
5 November 2021 – Remember! Remember! The Fifth of November! with Grace Tiffany
12 November 2021 – Remembrance: The Poetry of the Great War
19 November 2021 – Adapting George: MacDonald’s Classic Phantastes as a Graphic Novel
26 November 2021 – Give Thanks: Let Your Thinks be Thanks! A Gathering
3 December 2021 – Advent Readings: A Gathering
10 December 2021 – A Christmas Carol: The Squished Version
17 December 2021 – Father Christmas Letters, the Xmas Grouch, and Pevensies in the Melting Snow . . .
7 January 2022 – Fate, Hope, and the Dark Side of Enchantment: The Complicated History of Nightmare Alley
14 January 2022 – Three of the Four Loves: An Inkling Folk Fellowship Field Trip to New York
21 January 2022 – Screwtape: The Movie, Starring Glubdrip Snitchquill!
28 January 2022 – Art, Imagination, and the Molly Z Effect
4 February 2022 – Lines to Read before We Sleep: Stopping for Poetry on a Snowy Evening
11 February 2022 – A complete reading of The Screwtape Letters
18 February 2022 – What the . . . ? Screwtape Pop-up Mini-Conference 2022
25 February 2022 – Reentering Eden: A Conversation with Author Colleen Warren
4 March 2022 – Where Now the Horse and the Rider? Elegiac Inklings
11 March 2022 – Pageant Fever and All That: The Lighter Side of British Fancy-dress “History”
18 March 2022 – Fling Spring: Poetry and Prose in Praise of the Vernal Equinox (aka “the particular tilt”)
25 March 2022 – International Tolkien Reading Day: Love, Friendship, and Other Weapons against the Darkness
1 April 2022 – Uncracking the Real Narnia Code: A Gigantic Mystery Revealed
8 April 2022 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In Memoriam
15 April 2022 – Aslan in Hell? A Harrowing Adventure
22 April 2022 – April is the Coolest Month: National Poetry Month/Saint George’s Day Mash Up
29 April 2022 – “Gardeners of the Galaxies? How Imaginary Worlds Teach Us to Care for This One”:
A discussion with Sørina Higgins and Brenton Dickieson
6 May 2022 – Tolkien at Play, Seriously: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm’s Son
10 June 2022 – The Time.Wager, by Sarah Emtage and Blake Conklin
8 July 2022 – Shakespeare
22 July 2022 – Dune by Frank Herbert
26 August 2022 – Joe Ricke on Psalm Culture in CSL with special reference to Out of the Silent Planet
2 September 2022 – Frederick Buechner
9 September 2022 – report on Montreat (William, Sarah, Joe, John)
28 October 2022 – The Sound Castle, by Sarah Emtage, sound designed by Matt Rogalsky and Jeremy Kerr, starring Francesca Pang and Douglas Connors, directed by Becky Bridger.
11 November 2022 – Remembrance Day readings
18 November 2022 – John Milton
2 December 2022 – He That Should Come by Dorothy Sayers, reading
9 December 2022 – Christmas readings
16 December 2022 – Gaudate Advent 3
23 Decembner 2022 – W.S. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, reading
30 December 2022 – The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder and Many Moons by James Thurber