Ninety years ago, on April 3, 1936, The Spectator published a letter to the editor by Owen Barfield, which it headlined “Nationalism and Economics”. The letter, about the reality of the world’s econom...

Mark Vernon, Jeffrey Hipolito, Hilary Davies, Sir Ben Okri

Barfield, Blake and the saving energy of words

I’m incredibly fortunate to be a piano teacher and music composition instructor to students of all ages a few days each week. I also perform, compose, create content for YouTube, and write music educa...

The first fairytale published by a member of the Inklings, The Silver Trumpet remains entertaining and intelligent a century later.

The Owen Barfield in Russian Club is now ten years old. From the very beginning, we called it a club, although it could be called a “circle” or a “society”, or have no special designation at all, like...

The following contains some thoughts inspired by a very striking passage in Barfield’s late essay “Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion.” In reflecting on the Incarnation, he con...

Landon Loftin: Hello Spencer. Congratulations on your newest book: Light of the Mind, Light of the World. Can you say something about the book’s main thesis? Spencer Klavan: Thanks very much indeed, L...

It is to be expected that writers will have a muse, and it seems that Lucy Barfield was that muse for C.S. Lewis. Lucy was an accomplished dancer, musician, composer, artist and poet. She had a specia...

The following article was first printed in the 2005 edition of The Golden Blade, which was an annual anthroposophical publication which survived until 2009. It was written as the draft of a lecture ul...

Owen Barfield: author, philosopher of the Evolution of Consciousness, and member of the Inklings alongside C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Barfield Press has been very glad to receive a goodly number of inquiries about when a new edition of Owen Barfield’s first book, The Silver Trumpet, a story written originally for children, will ...

C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield were lifelong friends and powerful influences on each other.