The pub was a popular mecca for those who admired J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and their entire group of literary giants they called Inklings.Christopher wasn’t even close to being a literary giant nor was he a tourist, but he enjoyed writing and liked to feign himself one of the professors who might have basked in the lively readings and debates of the Inklings instead of just the aromas of this pub.Personally, he admired the writings of George MacDonald, the man C. S. Lewis considered his mentor. MacDonald was a writer and professor. And he was a frequently unemployed Scottish minister due to his views on God’s love and grace. The man could speak the language of theologians at the same time he wrote books for children and readers of all ages whom he described as “child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.” MacDonald was a man of integrity who believed that God did not punish His children except to amend and heal them. A man who believed God’s love and grace was available to all people—a direct affront to the Calvinists in his era.Christopher admired men from the past like George MacDonald, and he admired more contemporary, clandestine men of integrity like Walter Doyle who had encouraged him to lay down his pride and write about the stirrings in his own soul.He checked his watch.
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