-
C.S. Lewis and Bottoming Out
It seems to us that he went from being a formidable atheist to a formidable Christian right away, but he didn’t. There really are about ten years that we really don’t know very…
-
On Stories — C.S. Lewis
I’ve been thinking about the title essay of this collection. In it, C.S. Lewis ponders what we’re really after in our reading, and takes issue with the notion that there is a certain…
-
C.S. Lewis on “the decline of religion”
In the past I’ve reread C.S. Lewis at this time of year. Usually the essays I go back to are the ones in God in the Dock that relate to Christmas: “What Christmas…
-
Mark 11 and C.S. Lewis
This morning I revisited C.S. Lewis’s thoughts on Mark 11:24 in Letters to Malcolm. I like his take, and I’m going to quote him at length from his 11th chapter. He concludes by…
-
C.S. Lewis and Nature
Carrie and her family saw a Narnia exhibit at a local science center recently, and she commented that she felt the “living green” emphasis was not true to Lewis’s writing. It went into…
-
Why read: C.S. Lewis weighs in
To my way of thinking, one reason to read is to “complete the past” – a step beyond merely learning about the past. This passage from C.S. Lewis’ Miracles speculates on both the dangers and possibilities of…
-
Lewis the Social Prophet
There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…
-
The First Men in the Moon
I read H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon while creating a course on C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in Lewis’s Ransom trilogy. Lewis was a fan of…
-
Incrementalism
As regards the powers manifested in the aeroplane or the wireless, Man is as much the patient or subject as the possessor, since he is the target both for bombs and propoganda… What…
-
The Collective
It is not a question of causing the human being to disappear, but of making him capitulate, of inducing him to accommodate himself to techniques and not to experience personal feelings and reactions.…