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Tag: C.S. Lewis
Why C.S. Lewis Was So Persuasive
A new book lays out why Lewis was such an effective communicator.
Contempt Is Not a Cure: C.S. Lewis on Owning the Elites
Why C.S. Lewis would have rebuked a common conservative attitude as the work of the devil.
What is the “First Fact” of Christianity?
"To preach Christianity meant primarily to preach the resurrection."
Something Better Than Friendship
Rereading my way through C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves, I was struck by Lewis's blunt words about "wanting friends" and the essence of genuine friendship: That is why those pathetic people who simply "want friends" can never make any. The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where [...]
What C.S. Lewis Means to Me
Clive Staples Lewis died today, November 22, in 1963. I simply cannot imagine what my life would be like if this man were not a towering figure in it. This past summer I tried to capture a little bit of the debt of gratitude I feel toward him when we gave our newborn son the [...]
The Purifying Effect of Pleasure
Learning from C.S. Lewis's demons about loving well.
Pandering to Millennials
My friend and Mere Orthodoxy editor Jake Meador linked to this blog post on Twitter, and the following couple of paragraphs are too good to not share: The other day I read another of those articles that irritate me. The ones about how the church is failing millenials (sic) by being terribly outdated, and how [...]
Of Mothers and Imaginations
In his poem “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” the English poet Thomas Gray memorably reflected on the legacy of un-famous lives buried in a rural graveyard. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil // Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile // The short and simple annals of the [...]
What I’m Reading
I thought I'd share some of my current reads. Right now I have a list about 6-7 books deep that I hope to get through before my wife's due date of August 1. We'll see about that, I suppose. Keep in mind that none of these blurbs are necessarily recommendations, for the simple reason that [...]
