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A Look at Lewis’s Poetry

A Look at Lewis’s Poetry

January 9, 2017 5:12 am Published by Leave your thoughts

C.S. Lewis’s poetry is probably the least well-known part of his output. It is also probably the least liked part. People complain that Lewis had a tin ear as a poet. He didn’t give us verse that sings. It’s too full of knots. So they say.


Echoes of Eden

Echoes of Eden

December 23, 2016 6:29 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

I want to begin by explaining why I chose this title. First, we go back all the way to Lewis’ childhood. From a very early age Lewis had loved fairy stories, legends and myths. He delighted particularly in the myths of the Norsemen – the sagas of Norway and Iceland. …


How Landscapes Influenced Lewis

December 4, 2016 3:52 am Published by Leave your thoughts

My first experience with the fiction works of C.S. Lewis was with reading The Chronicles of Narnia. My wife and I were on vacation in England in 1966 when I bought my first of many sets of the Narnia stories.


Lewis On Death

December 2, 2016 1:22 am Published by Leave your thoughts

American culture (and Western culture generally) has a difficult time dealing with death and the dying. We often do not know how to interact with those who are terminally ill. In a culture that is all about this life, consuming goods and living life to its fullest, death is the …


Reflecting on Thanksgiving

Reflecting on Thanksgiving

November 19, 2016 2:08 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Thanksgiving in the United States is a time of calm before the expectant weeks of Advent. At least for a moment, the travesty and distress of the world is exchanged for feasting and consciously remembering the good providence of God. He is good, but the world is falling away. The mask of …


The Art of the Thank You Note

November 11, 2016 6:24 am Published by Leave your thoughts

On the subject of thanksgiving, C. S. Lewis believed we should be grateful for all the fortunes that come our way, both good and bad. It is easy, of course, to be grateful for the good things in our lives. But Lewis felt that we should be equally thankful for …


The Devil and Mr. Lewis

October 28, 2016 5:52 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The September 8, 1947 cover of Time Magazine improbably depicts the demure C. S. Lewis accompanied by a fiercely impish devil poised on his left shoulder, a caricature of his infamous fictional protagonist, Screwtape, AKA, Senior Tempter of Hell.


Attaching Ourselves to Heaven

October 13, 2016 1:56 am Published by Leave your thoughts

We all wrestle with death. Its presence is around us constantly. It’s in us too. But three great revelations of God in the Old Testament tell us: (1) he is one; (2) he made us in his image, (3) and he seeks after us because he loves us. All three …