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Year In Review: 2015 in Non-Fiction
Year In Review: 2015 in Non-Fiction
To Heaven & Back: A Liturgy That Hurts
With heaven a reality that Christian experience now, all of Lewis' analogy is being played out in the life of the church.
A Sprawling Essay
C. S. Lewis is a drum major in the Christian tradition. If you haven’t heard his song, you must remedy this.
Only Under Torture
Our suffering is never pointless, and through his own, Lewis is obliged to come to terms with the stakes of the game
The Republic of Malacandra
Perhaps C.S. Lewis meant for The Republic to stand as a prequel to the Space Trilogy!
Awakened From Cold Vulgarity
Lewis teaches us that the best way to defend children from believing in falsehoods is NOT by telling them that fairytales aren’t real. Rather, by inculcating the just sentiments that fairytales offer, children WILL be able to better defend themselves from falsehoods of the worst variety.
On C. S. Lewis and the Relentless God
To my mind, that's even more incredible and more beautiful than a magic world inside a wardrobe.
pain & progress
Am I advocating walking around in a constant state of grief over current affairs? No. And yet it is heart-breaking. I believe we are to strive for a balance
What Would Have Happened?
The Incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ is the apex and climax of all history, space, and time.
C.S. Lewis: All Things To All Men
What can Lewis teach us today? How about working toward being a person who loves Christ and his bride and behaving like a person everyone wants to love.
Why I'm Glad That C. S. Lewis Is Dead
That's why I'm so glad that, fifty-two years ago, Lewis died. Maybe that sounds harsh, but it's true.
Son of Earth, Shall We Be Friends?
The Lion gave him one shake and all his armour rattled like a tinker’s pack, and then -- hey-presto -- the Dwarf flew up in the air. He was as safe as if he had been bed, though he did not feel so.
Lingua de Lewis
Take this “Language of Malacandra Quiz” and come back at the end of the week for the answers.
Introducing C.S. Lewis Week
If you are new to Lewis, or on your fourth copy of The Chronicles of Narnia we hope you enjoy this tribute of practical posts to one of the church's great treasures.
Reading & Laying Down Your Life
C.S. Lewis makes an argument that “good reading” consists in laying down one’s own point of view. This, Lewis explains, is a type of “dying,” but in this dying, we find that we truly become ourselves as we escape ourselves.
C.S. Lewis on "Unrealistic" Stories
We value “realistic” stories over “fairy-tales.” The problem is that these realistic stories are all too often void of true beauty and imagination yet blatantly promote some “social or ethical or religious or anti-religious ‘comment on life.’” This is one of the main avenues that we have been deceived as a culture. We have sought to avoid deception through the very means that deception is most likely to come: “realistic” literature.
The Unliterary Person
The main distinction Lewis makes between the literary and unliterary person can be seen in their approach to literature.
Reading the Bible as a Literary Person
Unfortunately, it is this type of pragmatic unliterariness that so pervades many Christians’
C.S. Lewis on Being a Literary Person
No doubt there are many morals and messages held in the great works of literature. However, to approach a work of literature with the sole intention of mining these things is to approach literature as an unliterary person. In the case of the literary person, they approach a great work with the main intention to sit under the author’s tutelage. In this