Diana Pavlac Glyer is an award-winning writer, scholar, and artist. She is a leading expert on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. Her book The Company They Keep changed the way we talk about these writers. Bandersnatch explains what we can learn from their example. Her latest book is The Major and the Missionary. Her scholarship, her teaching, and her work as an artist all circle back to one common theme: creativity thrives in community.
Bandersnatch
An inspiring look at the creative process
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's work-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing? How does creative collaboration enhance individual talent? And what can we learn from their example?
Featuring full-page illustrations by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford, and a seat at their table at the Eagle and Child pub. It shows how encouragement and criticism made all the difference in The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other books written by the members of their circle. You'll learn what made these writers tick, and more: inspired by their example, you'll discover how collaboration can help your own creative process and lead to genius breakthroughs in whatever work you do.
The Company They Keep
The Company They Keep is the first and most complete examination of the Inklings and their close literary collaboration. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien met each week with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, all sharing their works-in-progress. Diana Pavlac Glyer invites readers into the heart of the group, examining diary entries and personal letters and carefully comparing the rough drafts of their manuscripts with their final, published work. Her discoveries not only demonstrates a high level of mutual influence, but it also provides a lively and compelling picture of how writers and other creative artists challenge, correct, and encourage one another when they work together in community.
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Clay in the Potter’s Hands: Second Edition
Most Christians have heard that God is the potter and we are the clay, but Diana Pavlac Glyer, who has spent countless hours at the potter's wheel, shows in this remarkable book that this saying is far more than a casual metaphor. As God hovers over His creation, centering us or shaping us or even restoring us from collapse, He may transform us in ways we never imagined.
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Barro en las Manos del Alfarero (Spanish Edition)
La mayoría de los cristianos han escuchado que Dios es un alfarero y nosotros somos la arcilla, pero Diana Pavlac Glyer, que ha pasado incontables horas al volante del alfarero, muestra en este notable libro que este dicho es mucho más que una metáfora casual. A medidaque Dios se cierne sobre su creación, centrándonos o formándonos o incluso restaurándonos del colapso, puede transformarnos de formas que nunca imaginamos.
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The Major and the Missionary: The Letters Of Warren Hamilton Lewis And Blanche Biggs
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Paperback – September 29, 2023
After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their own trials and longings. Their letters paint a colorful portrait that illuminates not only the particulars of distant times and places, but the intimate contours of a rare friendship.
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Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth
Journey Back Again is built on one central premise: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is worth reading and re-reading, again and again. Each contributor delves into a core facet of Tolkien’s master work, and each one illuminates something essential yet easily overlooked. In these pages, casual fans and accomplished scholars will find fresh insights and renewed inspiration. This new edition issues a heartfelt invitation for you to return to Middle-earth and discover what you have been missing.
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Clay in the Potter’s Hands: Full-Color Edition
Most Christians have heard that God is the potter and we are the clay, but Diana Pavlac Glyer, who has spent countless hours at the potter's wheel, shows in this remarkable book how this saying is far more than a casual metaphor. Just as a master potter works his clay, Glyer demonstrates how God hovers over His creation, centering us, shaping us, restoring us from collapse & transforming us in ways we never imagined.
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Clay in the Potter’s Hands WORKBOOK: Second Edition
The idea that God works in our lives like a potter working with clay is quite familiar: Pastors preach about it, Christians sing about it, and it is found in the Bible from beginning to end.
In "Clay in the Potter's Hands," Diana Pavlac Glyer breathes new life into this well-loved image, combining beautiful photography with an engaging, narrative style.
This workbook is designed to accompany "Clay in the Potter's Hands" and provide space to go deeper into each and every chapter. The more we know about clay, kilns, wheels, grog, firing, glazing, wedging, and the like, the more this spiritual picture becomes vivid and useful in our daily lives.
Accessible and highly recommended for personal reflection, mentoring and discipleship groups, Sunday School classes, and spiritual retreats.
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Bandersnatch Discussion Guide
This Discussion Guide is designed to help readers, writers, and collaborators to dig deeper into Glyer's book to discover principles that can unlock their own creative breakthroughs.
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Clay in the Potter’s Hands WORKBOOK/Barro en Las Del Alfaro LIBRO de TRABAJO: English/Spanish Edition
This workbook contains study questions, scriptures, and prayers to encourage readers to get the most out of Diana Pavlac Glyer's books "Clay in the Potter's Hands" and "Barro en las Manos del Alfarero." English and Spanish translations are presented side by side, leaving plenty of space for taking notes and journaling. This bi-lingual interactive guide will aid in personal study. It is also an ideal resource for Sunday School classes, discipleship groups, and one-on-one mentoring.
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Clay in the Potter’s Hands LEADER’s GUIDE: Second Edition
Thousands of people have read Clay in the Potter's Hands and found it an encouraging, challenging, and insightful way to grow in their faith. Using the image of God as a potter, it offers short chapters and vivid illustrations to show the many ways that God is at work in our daily lives.
This LEADER'S GUIDE was designed to help individuals go deeper into the meaning of each chapter and to equip churches, book clubs, small groups, and others to get the most out of their study of Clay in the Potter's Hands. Filled with practical suggestions, study questions, resources, activities, and tips, this guide will enrich your study and make it easy to introduce others to the riches of this book.
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A Compass for Deep Heaven: Navigating the C. S. Lewis Ransom Trilogy
Written to be accessible and useful to fans and scholars alike, A Compass for Deep Heaven provides the background information, historical context, and literary insight readers need to navigate the cosmos of Lewis’s science fiction. It does not merely inform; it shows how these contexts clarify key messages and reveal the real-world warnings hidden there.
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