The Inklings held weekly meetings in a pub called The Eagle and Child, referred to affectionately by the group’s members as the “Bird and Baby.” These weekly, if not more frequent gatherings, would last for sixteen years, and it was through interactions and debates held in the fellowship of this group— all writers, all male, all of whom shared an enthusiasm for fantasy literature and narrative— that faith finally left the page for Lewis and became a living, animated thing.
