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Preaching the Lord of the Rings Fragility, Fiction, and Faith: C. S. Lewis's War Wounds the Inklings and the Artist Network Th June '20 The Inklings Fragility, Fiction, and Faith: The Inklings and the 5 C. S. Lewis’s War Wounds 7 Artist Network Preaching The Silent Witness 9 The Lord of the Rings 15 of Evergreens CONNECTING CHURCH & COMMUNITY CONNECTING CHURCH & COMMUNITY Publisher | Bishop Geoffrey Woodcroft Editorial offices: Editor | Kyla Neufeld Anglican Lutheran Centre Accounting | Bernice Funk 935 Nesbitt Bay Advertising | Angela Rush Winnipeg Manitoba, R3T 1W6 Layout & design | cityfolkcreative.ca RLN exists to explore issues at the intersections Rupert’s Land News is published 10 times per of faith and life. In doing so we solicit and year (September - June) by the Diocese of publish a range of opinions, not all of which Rupert’s Land, in the Anglican Church in reflect the official positions of the Diocese. Canada. It connects churches and communities We acknowledge that we meet and work in from Portage la Prairie, MB, to Atikokan, ON, Treaty 1, 2, and 3 Land, the traditional land of by offering news, events, opinions, and ideas the Anishinaabe, Cree, and Dakota people and to 4,000 readers per month. RLN is available in the homeland of the Metis Nation. We are a variety of formats: grateful for their stewardship of this land and Website • Facebook • Twitter their hospitality which allows us to live, work, and serve God the Creator here. We also deliver timely news and information via a weekly email.Sign up here. RLN welcomes story ideas, news items, and other input. If you want to be involved in this media Advertising - RLN accepts advertising in our ministry, please email the editor. monthly magazine and our weekly email.View our rate sheet. To discuss advertising call Contents copyright 2020 byRupert’s Land (905) 630-0390 oremail us. News. All rights reserved. Cover:CGP Grey 2 Editorial You’ll Find Me in Middle-earth I think we all have that book – the book that sets I’m also sad to announce that this will be my something alight in us, the book to which we last issue. Between this, my freelance work, and point and say “I found myself here.” For me, being the primary caregiver for my daughter, that book is The Lord of the Rings. When I was I’m feeling a bit like “butter scraped over too 13, my best friend lent me her copies, and I much bread,” to borrow a phrase from Bilbo. absolutely devoured them. I couldn’t get Since I started at the tail-end of 2016, I’ve put enough. And, when I went looking for more, I together 36 monthly issues and hundreds of found a whole compendium of backstory and newsletters. I feel I’ve said all I needed to say, mythology to explore. I owe a lot of who I am and it’s time for a new voice at the helm. today to that book and to J. R. R. Tolkien I won’t forget my time withRupert’s Land himself. I know I’m not alone in that either. News anytime soon, and I am so privileged to Tolkien is, somewhat infamously, linked to have gotten to know so many people in this his friend C. S. Lewis. They were both part of an diocese. I want to say thank you to Bishop informal literary society called The Inklings, Geoff, former Bishop Don, and the rest of the which was associated with the University of diocesan staff for their unwavering support. Oxford. They, and other members like Charles Thank you to my advisory board – Chris Trott, Williams and Owen Barfield, would gather at Bonnie Dowling, Pam Bann, and, formerly, the Eagle and Child pub to discuss each other’s Susan Titterington – for their insights, and a unfinished works;The Lord of the Rings and special thank you to Pam for proofreading every Lewis’sOut of the Silent Planet both made an single newsletter. Thank you to the designer, appearance at one time. Their work has had an Mike Berg, the silent partner who has been just undoubted influence on literature and theology. as much a part of this In this issue, we’re going to explore that magazine as I have been. influence. Michael Gilmour offers a companion Thank you to the writers piece to his 2018 article “C. S. Lewis, the Great for filling these pages with War, and an Unwitting Canadian Connection,” amazing ideas. And, about how Lewis deals with the affects of the thank you, readers, for Great War in his writing. Hannah Foulger writes keeping this project about the support and community artists need going. to really thrive. Graham MacFarlane explains A new editor will be why he taughtThe Lord of the Rings to campers taking over in September, at Manitoba Pioneer Camp. And, in via media, and I’m excited to see Ryan Turnbull looks into the purpose of land where this publication Kyla Neufeld is the editor acknowledgements. goes next. of Rupert's Land News. 3 Pastoral Note Sacraments on the Road Geoffrey Woodcroft Inklings Geoffrey Woodcroft Image: Claudio Schwarz “Once God has spoken; In this time of exile, this space of yearning, twice have I heard this: I believe God has called upon the Body of that power belongs to God, Christ to exercise its collective memory, and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord.” wisdom, and ancient relationships to speak – Psalm 62:11 prophetically to the world and minister quietly to the neighbourhood. In hundreds of Called to offer last rites, I made my way to the conversations I have had since March 12, 2020, hospital. It was week five of the COVID-19 participants have shared a notion that God is lockdown. I was called to the bedside of my doing something with us right now. They share teacher, one who had invested in me along a with me news that could have been lifted right path of self-discovery, no gloves or masks from Samuel, “When the Word of God was required. rare…” God came and spoke to people in the She pointed to what appeared to be an fabric of relationships, clearly, lovingly and empty corner of the room and whispered, “They hopefully. came this morning, and some are laughing.” I think the Church has already been I asked, “Are you afraid?” changed by God, who has not left us alone in “Afraid of what?” she laughed back. exile. God’s power and voice have risen in the We prayed, but at the end of the prayers centuries-old DNA of the risen Body as a she couldn’t speak anymore. We held hands, groundswell: “Once God has spoken” and now and she looked into my eyes and smiled. She “twice have I heard: that power belongs to was letting go, and she invited me to share this God, and steadfast love belongs to you, O sacred time. There were no words spoken, just Lord.” As I explore God’s written word each day, her warm smile and firm grip upon my hand, I encounter a God who forms, cultivates, and giving me a glimpse of God’s vast embrace. then permeates relationships throughout all It was an extraordinarily beautiful history. God continuously experience, and it aligns with hundreds, if not weaves human thousands, of experiences in my life that unfurl relationships, always with such grace and depth. Regardless of where returning us to right and and when we find ourselves, we are constantly just relationships for the navigating a complex set of relationships. sake of creation, a place Relationships, as far as I can tell, are always from where we hear again multi-relational: not just human to human, but what God has spoken. human to land, Creator, time, the air in our lungs, and so on. Should we try to count the relationships represented by three humans, I Geoffrey Woodcroft, know we would spend a great time enjoying the Bishop of Rupert’s Land connections that we may have missed. 4 The Inklings Fragility, Fiction, and Faith: C. S. Lewis’s War Wounds Michael Gilmour This is a companion piece to“C. S. Lewis, the distress, and war, among them the failing health Great War, and an Unwitting Canadian of his “mother” Janie Moore; his brother’s Connection” in December 2018’s issue of return to active military service during wartime; Rupert’s Land News on Sacred Space. food shortages and rationing; his own worsening rheumatism; and the sudden death Fragility. On one of the branches of the River of friend and Inkling Charles Williams. All the Cherwell, near Magdalen College of the while, interestingly, Lewis was writing fiction University of Oxford, there is an area once with conspicuous attention to the recovery of reserved for male students to bathe nude. In a damaged bodies and spirits. 1922 diary entry, C. S. Lewis records swimming Fiction. Lewis turned 41 on November 29, there, adding a sobering observation: “Amid so 1939, thus avoiding conscription, but his writing much nudity I was interested to note the suggests deep concern about conflict and passing of my own generation: two years ago human fragility. InPerelandra , the protagonist every second man had a wound mark, but I did Ransom uses his not see one today.” Lewis had scars of his own, “middle-aged, and not just physical ones: “The early loss of my sedentary body” mother, great unhappiness at school, and the to fight a demonic shadow of the last war... had given me a very enemy on another pessimistic view of existence.” planet. Ransom, He describes the physical injuries sustained like Lewis, and like in the trenches of France in a 1918 letter, with Tolkien on whom apparent understatement to spare his father the character is some anxiety: “I was..
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