C.S. Lewis Center

The C.S. Lewis Center at Sterling College is open to all, providing opportunities to engage with primary and secondary scholarly sources, to be mentored by expert Sterling faculty and visiting scholars, and to participate in activities which actively invite and encourage scholarship from our students and readers of all ages. This will include reading groups, special lectures and seminars, workshops, and multiple other ways of joining the conversation. We hope to foster intelligent and heartfelt responses to Lewis’s writings and in so doing, to understand something of the larger vision communicated in and through Lewis’s writings.

Mission Statement

The Sterling College Lewis Center’s mission is to encourage the study and enjoyment of, as well as scholarship on, the works of C.S. Lewis through writing, reading, discussion, and conferences. Our goal is to help people (whether students, scholars, or interested readers) engage robustly with Lewis’ spiritual, social, and literary vision.

The Center’s mission is local, serving the students and faculty of Sterling College; regional, serving the spiritual and literary communities of central Kansas; and global, helping further interest in Lewis and Lewis scholarship.

Local

The Center serves our local Sterling College and Sterling Community with regular opportunities to take part in reading groups, listen to scholarly presentations from students and faculty, encounter artistic responses to Lewis’s works, conduct personal research projects using our collections of primary and secondary Lewis material, and attend other programing throughout the year.

Regional

The Center serves regionally by hosting conferences for and featuring work from scholars, students, pastors and faculty in the Central and South Central region of Kansas, partnering with regional groups and organizations in the area such as the Eighth Day Institute and Eight Day Books as well as schools, colleges and communities in the region. To this end, it has recently been awarded a small grant from SCKLS for this new project.

Global

The Center serves globally by hosting events and conferences with national and international speakers, by facilitating further research on Lewis’s works, by encouraging and pioneering new approaches and responses to his writings, and by expanding the global community of scholarship on and engagement with Lewis’s writings. In doing so, it places Sterling College on the map as a central location for the further pursuit of Lewis teaching and scholarship, and ultimately seeks to serve the world by pointing, through Lewis’s works, as indeed his works themselves point, to the robust Christianity he championed.

To search the Lewis Center collection and catalogue, to access online resources, to see up to date information on our upcoming events, and to sign up for our mailing list and newsletter, see the Lewis Center Library Page here.

Or, better yet, come and visit us in person, explore our materials, come along to one of our events, join in the conversation about Lewis’s works at a reading group or by starting your own research project. We’d be delighted to welcome you to the Sterling College C.S. Lewis Center.

For further queries or information please feel free to reach out to the Lewis Center Director, Dr. Sarah Waters.