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A Book of Narnians
Ever wondered what the Naiads, Dryads, and Maenads of Lewis’s Narnia chronicles looked like? How about the wer-wolves and hags? In James Riordan’s A Book of Narnians you and your children can be…
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A Grief Observed
I’m not sure why I picked this book up just now. The ideal time to experience it would probably be in the midst of loss. Or maybe I would find it annoying then.…
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The Magician’s Book
Reading The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia has been a rollercoaster experience. In that sense, the title is apt, named as it is after the weighty tome Lucy leafs through in…
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Reflections on the Psalms
I have to be honest: the book of Psalms has never been a favorite of mine. It’s been praised so often by others that I’m quite willing to accept that the fault is…
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The Abolition of Man: Contemplating Skepticism
Stepping outside the Tao, they have stepped into the void. Nor are their subjects necessarily unhappy men. They are not men at all: they are artefacts. Man’s final conquest has proved to be…
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Stray thoughts on war and pacifism
I wanted to gather a few comments from thinkers I respect, and see what comparisons emerge. First, Wendell Berry. Here’s a brief excerpt from “The Failure of War“: What could be more absurd,…
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The Weight of Glory
The Weight of Glory is a collection of speeches C.S. Lewis gave on different topics, for different occasions. It was my first experience of reading Lewis this way, rather than in a sustained…
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That Hideous Strength
The Hideous Strength holds all this Earth in its fist to squeeze as it wishes. But for their one mistake, there would be no hope left. If of their own evil will they…
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Miracles
The next morning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole thing to the Professor. “He’ll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong with Lu,” said…
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Ms. Nature: Reading Journal on ‘Miracles’
I’ve read a fair amount of nature writing. In much of it, Nature emerges as a living “entity,” vast, interrelated, wild, something we’re part of and should reverence. But nowhere have I read…