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C.S. Lewis and the Butterfly Effect
In our culture we are taught to swing for the fences. Blast the game-winning home run high over the center field wall. Instant gratification and recognition. Great work if you can get it. But a life...
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The Eagle and Child in All of Us
And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy. And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, not abandoning...
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C.S. Lewis, the Scandal of Particularity, Science & Revelation
Reading about my Veracity co-blogger John Paine’s adventures in England, and seeing the photos of the Eagle and Child, it made me think of C. S. Lewis. Until recently, I have never been a very avid C....
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Lewis, Kennedy, Huxley… and the End of the Age of Innocence
Three deaths on one day, November 22, 1963, that marked the passing of an era. Justin Taylor, at the Gospel Coalition, chronicles the timeline of the events on that momentous day, with a blog post...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis’ Reflections on the Psalms
The Psalms remain a difficult book for many Christians today. C. S. Lewis’ Reflections on the Psalms might help many of us to find our way through this great book of poetry, in the Hebrew Scriptures. I...
View ArticleC. S. Lewis’ Reflections on the Psalms Redux
We are wrapping up our study of the Book of Psalms this week, as part of a “Summer Reflection Challenge.” As I mentioned at the beginning of the summer, I promised to re-read C.S. Lewis’ Reflections on...
View ArticleA Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and A Great War: a Reflection
Veterans Day, in 2018, marks a special day in world history, the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. This war is often overshadowed, for Americans, by WWII, despite the fact that the...
View ArticleThe Problem with Words
You all will probably think I am weird. But for some upcoming blog posts, I plan on blogging some thoughts every now and then about the problem with words. Over the past year or so, it occurred to me...
View ArticleHow Modernity Influenced the Evolution of English Words
I have been reading Owen Barfield’s History in English Words, and it has some amazing insights into how language changes. By way of introduction, consider the cartoon above, about “thinking outside of...
View ArticleVerbicide
I might step on some toes here. I am just as guilty here as the next person, but in C.S. Lewis’ masterful work, Studies in Words, p.7-8, the great Oxford don nails it: “Verbicide, the murder of a word,...
View Article“Conservative” and “Liberal” as Christian Labels
A quick followup to a previous post from a week or so ago about “verbicide”…..The shifting sands of culture, underneath our very feet, have a far reaching impact on how Christians use words. Take the...
View ArticleConcluding Thought on Owen Barfield’s History in English Words
I have to return Owen Barfield’s History in English Words to the InterLibrary Loan, so I am putting in a quick, final comment here. Owen Barfield was one of C. S. Lewis’ most influential friends, and...
View ArticleThe Silver Chair: C.S. Lewis Against the Seduction of Secularism
C.S. Lewis’ 1953 fantasy children’s novel has a scene where Jill and Eunace, the human children, along with their faithful, yet gloomy companion and Marsh-Wiggle, Puddlegum, have been living...
View ArticleBishop Robert Barron at the Graves of Tolkien and Lewis
Happy Reformation Day!…. which is a not-so-subtle reminder that I am not a Roman Catholic. But I have a great appreciation for so many of my Roman Catholic friends, and particularly an admiration for a...
View ArticleHis Dark Materials: The Seductive Power of Atheist Children’s Novels
I was greeted this morning by an ad for tonight’s premiere on HBO and AmazonPrime of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. Adapted to film by the BBC from his series of childrens novels, His Dark...
View ArticleCan We Still Believe the Bible? A Review
This may sound like an odd way of introducing a book review, but hang with me…. In his 1959 novel, The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Cordon writes about an American serviceman, captured during the...
View ArticleStudies in Words, by C. S. Lewis
The great Oxford don, C.S. Lewis, by all accounts, was a brilliant philologist, an expert in language, particularly as he related to the study of medieval literature. His remarkable Studies in Words,...
View ArticleStill Time to Care: Moving from Cure to Care for Those with Unwanted Same-Sex...
When did Christians move from an ethic of care to an ethic of cure of unwanted, same-sex attraction persons? And what can Christians do to move back towards an ethic of care? These are the central...
View ArticleMere Christianity: by C.S. Lewis. Reviewing a Classic
There are just some books that have been sitting on my “to-be-read” list for years. C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, until recently, was one of them. Mere Christianity, based on a series of talks given...
View ArticleChristmas in Europe: A Tour of Cambridge, England
My wife and I were able to tack on a few extra days, after our Christmas stay in Belgium, to go and visit friends staying in Cambridge, England. Jon Thompson, the director of the Cambridge House at the...
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