Ben and George: The Friendship that Invented America

It's a delightful alchemy that takes geography and the events of historical context, and then blends in the like-mindedness and the variations of two distinct personalities.  Common enough, this is the science of friendship that is traced and recorded by Randy Petersen  in The Printer and the Preacher because, every once in a while, the melding of a friendship has historical impact,… Continue reading Ben and George: The Friendship that Invented America

“This Is Not THAT Kind of Biography”

I first met C.S.Lewis in the back seat of a  1970's era hatch back careening non-stop from Maine to Georgia.  Like the young man who owned the car,  I was on my way to college.  Unlike the driver, I was not interested in the young lady in the passenger's seat.  Since the driver's boxed set of Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia was piled… Continue reading “This Is Not THAT Kind of Biography”