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The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

—Mere Christianity

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6.26.2008

A Cancer in the Universe

by David Naugle

I agree Technology is per se neutral: but a race devoted to the increase of its own power by technology with complete indifference to ethics does seem to me a cancer in the Universe. Certainly if he goes on his present course much further man can not be trusted with knowledge. - C. S. Lewis, responding to a letter from Arthur C. Clarke

My back was turned completely to the classroom. I sat atop a stool behind the lectern, with trademark white wires fashionably dangling from each ear-bud in route to my iPod. I was also scanning a book, obviously multi-tasking!

6.18.2008

Why Read Old Books: History and Its Relevance

by Dan Hamilton

An Introduction is a signpost - pointing not to itself but to the pages that follow. While “On the Reading of Old Books” is usually reprinted (and presented) as a stand-alone essay by Lewis, it is actually the introduction to a book written by someone else:

"The Incarnation of the Word of God: Being the Treatise of St. Athanasius
DE INCARNATIONE VERBI DEI, Newly Translated by a Religious of C.S.M.V. St. Th."

This book appeared in 1944 from Centenary Press/Bles (in England) and later from MacMillan (in the US); it has been reprinted at least twice since then in paperback form.

6.3.2008

A Princely Film We Commoners Can Relate To

by Devin Brown

While The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe culminated with a grand coronation scene, Andrew Adamson’s second Narnia film, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, never gets around to officially making the young prince into a king. Nor did Lewis’s original. And this is as it should be since this second adventure is about people who are more like us and about life in a world which is more like our own.