Like a Solid Thing
Here’s another favorite passage from That Hideous Strength. A few good characters are searching for the historical Merlin, come back from the dead. One of them, Dimble, a scholar, is more aware of their danger...
Read moreHere’s another favorite passage from That Hideous Strength. A few good characters are searching for the historical Merlin, come back from the dead. One of them, Dimble, a scholar, is more aware of their danger...
Read moreI keep listening to That Hideous Strength on my ipod shuffle when I go hiking with Sophia. Its one of my favorite books. This is a great passage in which Jane’s skepticism about God and...
Read moreAbout a year and half ago I stumbled across C.S. Lewis’ treatment of the problem of the suffering of animals before the human fall in chapter 9 of his The Problem of Pain, titled “On...
Read moreI am listening to C.S. Lewis’ God in the Dock this week and last, and I have to say that his essay “Religion without Dogma?” in the first section is fantastic. His apologetics at their...
Read moreRepenting can be painful. Self-deception is always easier than staring the undisguised, unexcused ugliness of your sin in the face, completely owning up to it, genuinely hating it, and actually turning from it. But C.S....
Read moreI’ve been listening to Out of the Silent Planet this week. Its not quite as good as the other two books in the space trilogy, I don’t think – but nevertheless its a lot of...
Read moreSome C.S. Lewis scholars have popularized the idea that Lewis had a serious crisis of faith after a debate with Elizabeth Anscombe, a Roman Catholic philosopher, at the Oxford Socratic Club on February 2, 1948. ...
Read moreListening to Perelandra this week. My favorite part is when Ransom and the Un-man fight. I especially love this scene, where Lewis describes the evil of the Un-man (the devil), and then Ransom finds new...
Read moreFinished G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy today. Loved it. Well worth the time. Would like to read The Everlasting Man sometime, too – C.S. Lewis called it the best popular apologetic for Christianity he knew – but...
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