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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 16/10/2025

Happy 75th anniversary The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, published this day in 1950! What does Narnia mean to you? Here's the impact it's had on me – I still haven't got over the disappointment at not finding my own way into Narnia: www.biggerinside.co.uk/p/what-i-did...

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What I did in Narnia, and Narnia did to me

My reflections on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at 75. Plus sign up for a Narnia @ 75 online book group discussion, 8pm GMT on 30 October

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 27/09/2025

This is a key problem with digital ID: you have to trust not only the present government not to turn it into a China-style social credit system, but also anyone who might be elected in future

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 24/06/2025

Just mulling over recent issues with Doctor Who and the dangers of nostalgia rot undermining storytelling. Plus, is being "woke" the problem? (Spoiler warning: it's the quality of the writing, not politics, that's the fundamental issue) www.biggerinside.co.uk/p/doctor-who...

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Doctor Who and the Nostalgia Trap, Part 2: It's the Writing, Stupid

What's gone wrong with Doctor Who? Looking at the seeds sown in the Chibnall era and the heated question of whether the show is 'too woke'

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 03/06/2025

While I enjoyed much of the series, I was left disappointed by the Doctor Who finale and that backward-looking regeneration into Billie Piper. I dive into 20 years of the modern show as I consider the State of the Whoniverse: www.biggerinside.co.uk/p/doctor-who...

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Doctor Who and the Nostalgia Trap

20 years on from its triumphant return to TV, I explore the highs and lows of the show through to the present faltering reign of Russell T Davies 2.0

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 09/04/2025

How does creativity work – what’s going on in our brains when we exercise our imaginations? And how can imagination point us to spiritual truth? I dig into these questions with the help of C.S. Lewis and neuroscientist/philosopher Iain McGilchrist... www.biggerinside.co.uk/p/creativity...

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Creativity and spiritual inspiration: Iain McGilchrist and C.S. Lewis on Reason and Imagination

The surprising connections between McGilchrist's brain science, the origins of Narnia and the idea of Christianity as "myth become fact"

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 25/03/2025

So it’s fitting that Tolkien chose it to be the date for Sauron’s downfall in The Lord of the Rings, a work that he described as ‘fundamentally religious and Catholic work… unconsciously at first, and consciously in the revision’.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 25/03/2025

25th March is a date full of spiritual associations: it was traditionally thought to be the date the Crucifixion took place, as well as the Annunciation when the angel came to Mary and Mary accepted her role bearing the Saviour.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 25/03/2025

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! The compiler of A Year with Timothy Keller knew what he was doing on 25th March, the day in Middle-Earth when the Ring was destroyed, with this selection from Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering. (Yes, it was me!)

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 03/03/2025

Just throwing this out to my network – I'll be in London for London Book Fair #lbf25 Tue-Wed next week. I've still got some meeting time free on Wednesday lunchtime/afternoon. If you'd like to connect in or near Olympia, especially if you'd like to talk about my freelance services, drop me a line!

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 01/03/2025

This Thursday! Join me for the next Estuary Conversation at Parc Arts, Treforest, 7.30-9.30pm. Estuary offers a friendly space to listen and be listened to in meaningful conversation - everyone welcome! Free to attend but RSVP here: www.meetup.com/uk-estuary-m...

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 23/02/2025

Today at 9am - hear me discussing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at 75 years’ old on BBC Radio Wales (and to listen back later on BBC Sounds). I had a fun time recording this chat with Roy Jenkins, Hannah Hess and Catherine Butler! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 14/02/2025

So I want to introduce my 7-year-old to the stories of King Arthur. What do people think is the best version for reading aloud together? I really like T H White but I'd prefer a more straightforward retelling rather than 'clever'; faithful to tradition but with contemporary-feeling pace and style

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 07/02/2025

So after running my first ‘Estuary’ conversation in-person yesterday, today I took part in a live-streamed Estuary hosted by Paul Van der Klay, one of the originators of the format, on YouTube - I had fun in the wide-ranging conversation! www.youtube.com/live/aGYo4oK...

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Friday BoM Estuary Style Livestream

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 16/01/2025

At Christmas, Doctor Who and Wallace & Gromit both tackled our anxieties about technology in surprisingly similar ways. They explored what happens when tech goes wrong - an the importance of embodied connection Read my analysis: www.biggerinside.co.uk/p/the-machin...

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The Machine vs Human Touch

How Wallace & Gromit and Doctor Who's Christmas TV outings explore the power of technology and the need for embodied relationships

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 16/01/2025

Yes, God’s glory is the spreading of his goodness - his self-giving love is glorious.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 14/01/2025

Or separate his art from his actions, to be clearer.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 14/01/2025

Saddened and angered by Neil Gaiman's 'alleged' sexual abuse of women - I believe these women and my heart goes out to them. I enjoyed Gaiman's writing, admired him as a writer, but I'm going to find it hard if not impossible to separate the man from his actions: www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 21/12/2024

Loving the Behold the Lamb of God concert with Andrew Peterson, the Arcadian Wild, the Goudies and more - wonderful to experience and to experience it among lots of familiar faces in the audience from Highfields, Hutchmoot UK and elsewhere.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I am *begging* techbros to read some cautionary scifi No wait -- their media literacy is so poor, they should hire a lit coach and THEN read some cautionary scifi No wait -- they should just hire me to be their lit coach, and I'll just bonk them with a stick while yelling "BAD IDEA!" all day.

having kids in the next 5 years might be a tragic mistake

every smart bio founder/scientist i’ve talked to seems to think embryo editing for things like short sleeper, reduced cancer risk, etc is possible on a near term horizon

imagine having two kids a couple years apart, one is a super human and the other isn’t

“sorry jim, little timmy won’t get cancer, only needs 4 hours of sleep and you’re normal you were just born in the wrong order"

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 10/12/2024

Caleb the Red-Nosed Publisher! Getting in the Christmassy spirit for the UWP/Calon Christmas party as I head towards my last week in the role (finishing 18th December)

Me, a bearded brown haired man with my eyebrows arched, wearing a red nose, and a Christmas jumper in red, white and green with red Welsh dragons in the design.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 05/12/2024

Anyway, here's the article if you want to read it for yourself. I think the impulse to read widely is a good one, but it rubbed me up the wrong way otherwise! currentpub.com/2024/12/05/t...

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To the Christian Writer

Bring the fire

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 05/12/2024

The article also says that art shouldn't "conclude" - to clearly communicate definite themes and ideas. Good art is more of a debate and dialogue rather than monologue of a single viewpoint, otherwise it lacks tension. But good art usually contains resolution too, including of its themes

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 05/12/2024

I think Tolkien and Lewis are 'uncool' in part because they are very Christian. But Christians need to resist the temptation to see 'Christian art' as inherently cringe. A lot of it is, but being a Christian and an artist means seeing the world through the eyes of faith, and that has an impact

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 05/12/2024

Can some Christians be too narrowly fixated on the Inklings? Sure, but let's be additive rather than subtractive. There's no need to ditch the Lord of the Rings re-read, but do branch out from there - Beowulf, T S Eliot, T H White are just a short hop away, for example, which might appeal

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 05/12/2024

More Christians should read beyond Narnia and LotR, of course: Till We Have Faces, the Ransom Trilogy, The Great Divorce, The Abolition of Man, The Silmarillion, Leaf by Niggle, and so on... Also the Inklings can be a great bridge into medieval & renaissance literature - they were my gateway drug!

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 05/12/2024

There's an article going around addressed to writers who are Christians saying 'stop reading' Tolkien and C S Lewis. I'm all for encouraging reading widely, but it's a midwit take to stop reading the Inklings out of some kind of literary snobbery. They are genuinely great!

IQ bell curve meme showing a low IQ person saying 'Lewis & Tolkien are the GOATs', a crying midwit saying 'Christian writers should stop obsessing on the Inklings' and a high IQ genius saying 'Lewis & Tolkien are the GOATs'

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 25/11/2024

On the last point, if you want to get books sold in, say, Waterstones’, they need to have been “sold in” to the book trade at least 6 months ahead. The traditional publishing distribution model is slow, even if you speed up making the actual book

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 25/11/2024

So the major factors are: 1) Backlog and project management of multiple titles means books are in a queue 2) Multiple stages of editing (creative/structural edit, copy-editing, proofreading) 3) Printing, warehousing, distributing vs POD 4) Lead times for bricks & mortar booksellers’ sales cycles

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 25/11/2024

After the rain comes the sun… The Taff still high and Ynysangharad Park still waterlogged after yesterdays floods in Pontypridd Praying for everyone whose homes and businesses were flooded yesterday 😢

Photo showing the aftermath of flooding in Pontypridd

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media a lot right now, working very hard on my new book, trying to get it done in less than 9 years this time! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Repost & follow to enter, & say which one you'd like - closes Dec 14! #KidLitUK

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 22/11/2024

Last night was a beautiful clear night for stars, and Jupiter was rising over the hillside. With the zoom on my digital camera, I even managed to capture a picture of three of Jupiter’s moons. Amazing to see the wonders of the heavens!

Black sky with Jupiter as a larger glowing dot and three moon as smaller dots in a line.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 18/11/2024

👍 Anything worth doing is worth doing badly, as G K Chesterton said!

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 18/11/2024

If you need help getting a book ready to publish, or with digital content creation, digital marketing or website development, get in touch to see how I can help! Find out more: calebwoodbridge.com

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 18/11/2024

So I'm available from January onwards for freelance digital and editorial services, looking to do a spread of different work across the overlap of technology and creativity, both at a strategic and hands-on level

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 18/11/2024

I'm excited for what's ahead though - I've enjoyed seasons freelancing before and I'm going to work hard at making it my long-term next step career wise, not just a stop-gap. But it is a slightly scary step, especially with a family to support. If you’re a praying person I’d value your prayers!

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 18/11/2024

I've been able to work with great colleagues and authors, and I'm proud of work I've done especially books I've edited. So it's hard to be leaving already, but there have been challenges too, and I believe that this is the best way forward both for me and for Calon.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 18/11/2024

🚨Some big news for me! I'm going to be leaving my current role as Publisher at Calon Books at the end of the year, to go freelance in 2025 - more on that here: calebwoodbridge.com I'm sad to be leaving Calon so soon. Sometimes a job you thought was a great fit just doesn't quite work out as planned

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Woodbridge Digital & Editorial Services: helping your story connect

Freelance editing and publishing consultancy, plus digital content services to connect your message with your audiences.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 14/11/2024

I recently finished rereading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Pondering its significance as a re-enchantment narrative, and how much it makes sense to read Norrell as Protestant vs Strange as Catholic in their approach to magic. Any recommendations for articles/essays on the book?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I hope we get someone different for Archbishop of Canterbury this time, and they don't just pull a fast one and bring David Tennant back again.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 13/11/2024

Just updated my handle to 'calebwoodbridge.com' rather than 'calebwoodbridge.bsky.social'. Tidy.

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Caleb Woodbridge @calebwoodbridge.com · 13/11/2024

Each day, I get that bit closer to leaving the Other Place for good. Not quite there but it feels I might reach my tipping point soon

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