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Personalized Praise

“Each of the redeemed shall forever know and praise some one aspect of the divine beauty better than any other creature can. Why else were individuals created, but that God, loving all infinitely, should love...

March 10, 2010No Comments

Lewis, Tolkien, and Friendship

One of the interesting parts about The Narnian has been reading about Lewis’ friendships, and in particular his friendship with Tolkien. They made some funny statements about each other. For example, on hearing that the...

November 24, 2009No Comments

The Narnian

I am reading, and immensely enjoying, Alan Jacob’s The Narnian, an intellectual biography of C.S. Lewis that has come out within the last few years. Among many other passages and themes that could be commented...

November 11, 2009No Comments

Some favorite passages from That Hideous Strength

I recently re-read That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, and enjoyed it so much. One of my favorite things about this book is the creativity Lewis used in making the characters in leadership of the...

October 10, 20086 Comments

An Apologist’s Evening Prayer

A poem by C.S. Lewis: From all my lame defeats and oh! much moreFrom all the victories that I seemed to score;From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalfAt which, while angels weep, the audience laugh;From...

August 7, 2008No Comments

Reflections on the Trinity (3)

In my continued reflections on the difficult, weighty, and beautiful doctrine of the Trinity, I looked a bit tonight at the fourth and final section of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, entitled “Beyond Personality: Or First...

April 8, 20082 Comments