“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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“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17)
The Problematic Inklings
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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.