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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by the rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? The same with people... Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

—A Grief Observed

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05.13.2013

Are You Attached to God?

Lewis to Joyce Pearce in Collected Letters Volume 2, July 20, 1943: It is to me inconceivable that Nature as we see it is either what God intended or merely evil: it looks like a good thing spoiled.

05.06.2013

Any Winged Horses Out There?

The note in A Year with C.S. Lewis for May 11 indicates that Lewis met J.R.R. Tolkien this day in 1926. It's apropos then to reflect on a selection from Mere Christianity about the Christ's salvific work to make us new creatures, not simply nicer people.

05.02.2013

Jack in Retrospect Monthly - May

by William O'Flaherty
The first Christian book, first academic title, last apologetic work and a Narnian prequel top the list of books published during Lewis's lifetime in the month of May. Two more books were also released after his death this month and his first claim to fame in the U.S. had its beginning in 1941 during this period.