{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"The Inklings, Creativity, and Community with Diana Glyer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2965,"description":"Our Summer 2025 series, Beside Still Waters, focuses on the places where creativity brings life into a world fatigued by brokenness and division. From jazz to Jane Austen and in between, this season we’ll focus on the ways literature and the arts can refresh and challenge our inner lives—and connect us with the Creator of the good, the true, and the beautiful.\n\nToday’s guide is the author and professor Diana Glyer. She’ll be talking about the lives and work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their beloved community known as the Inklings.\n\nIn this episode drawn from an online conversation held in February of 2021, Diana focuses on how creativity thrives within small clusters of like-hearted people. We hope you enjoy reflecting on the potential of your own friendships and communities to be culture-shaping.\n \nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nThe Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, by Diana Glyer\nBandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings, by Diana Glyer\nThe Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien\nCharles Williams\nC.S. Lewis\nShakespeare\nOwen Barfield\nHugo Dyson\nOut of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis\nJerry Root\nThe Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis\n \nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nOn Friendship, by Cicero\nThe Golden Key, by George MacDonald\nThe Oracle of the Dog, by G.K. Chesterton\nThe Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers\n \nRelated Conversations:\nSuffering, Friendship, and Courage: What Lewis & Tolkien Teach Us About Resilience & Imagination, an Online Conversation with Joe Loconte","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}