The C.S. Lewis Society
of Harrisonburg
2015 Meeting Schedule
2015 Meeting Schedule
Three Kinds of
Meetings:
1) Book Discussion: Discussion Leader prepares questions, everyone reads book and comes to the meeting and discusses the book using the questions as a guide.
2) Theme/Topic Meeting: A theme/topic is used as a focus and each member develops their own "take" on the theme/topic and comes prepared to talk for 5 to 10 minutes on the theme/topic and then participate in the resulting discussion.
3) Free Style: Everyone comes to the meeting with something to talk about and we let things go the way they go while enjoying one another's company.
1) Book Discussion: Discussion Leader prepares questions, everyone reads book and comes to the meeting and discusses the book using the questions as a guide.
2) Theme/Topic Meeting: A theme/topic is used as a focus and each member develops their own "take" on the theme/topic and comes prepared to talk for 5 to 10 minutes on the theme/topic and then participate in the resulting discussion.
3) Free Style: Everyone comes to the meeting with something to talk about and we let things go the way they go while enjoying one another's company.
Meeting Dates For 2015 (Second
Thursday of Each Month)
January 8: Elizabeth will be our discussion leader on A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
January 8: Elizabeth will be our discussion leader on A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
February 12: Theme: C.S. Lewis on Sin (any Lewis source: come and
share 5-10 minutes)
March 12: Ray
will be or discussion leader on Richard Platt's As One Devil To Another a fiendish correspondence in the tradition
of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters.
April 9: Peggy
will be our discussion leader for When I
Was a Child I Read Books: Essays by Marilynne Robinson.
May 14: Theme:
Your favorite essay from God In The Dock
(pick one and give us 5-10 minutes on why it is your favorite)
June 11: Theme: What drew you to C.S. Lewis? (share for 5-10
minutes)
July 9: Theme: What is your favorite book from the
Chronicles of Narnia (share for 5-10 minutes)
August 13: Theme:
C.S. Lewis on Free Will (any Lewis source: share 5-10 minutes)
September 10: Stephen
will be our discussion leader for Surprised
by Joy
October 8: Theme:
C.S. Lewis on Education (any Lewis source: share 5-10 minutes)
November 12: Theme:
the essay On the Reading of Old Books
the introduction C.S. Lewis wrote to Sr. Penelope's translation of Athanasius: On the Incarnation available
on the internet in its entirety at http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/history/ath-inc.htm The introduction is five pages long. Come and share on either the introduction or
Sr. Penelope's translation (5-10 min. or so)
December TBD:
Christmas Planning Party: Stephen has volunteered to host again. How wonderful is that? I don't see how he can outdo himself, but I'm
up to see him try.
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