The Problematic Inklings
“It’s not easy to admit that the Inklings—Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and their friends who met weekly to share their writings—weren’t the perfect heroes revered in Christian homeschool guides.” - Mere Orthodoxy
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Which of us is a perfect hero? We might posit that great harm is done by well-intended hagiography, because the real man can never measure up. It is also worth noting that it seems that some of the sins of the Inklings were pre-Christ, and the others seem to have been dealt with by history, which has largely forgotten Neville Coghill, Arthur Greeves, and Charles Williams.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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