The 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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