In conjunction with HarperOne, Bible Gateway is now offering a daily online C. S. Lewis devotional called C. S. Lewis Daily. For the first time, the world’s largest Christian website will provide daily meditative messages to site visitors and email subscribers, pulled from eight of Lewis’s most famous books. Excerpts …
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It won’t be surprising to hear, since many of us will invoke what Lewis calls chronological snobbery, about the “old-fashioned” views Lewis kept about marriage. And, to say it that way, puts us on our own enlightened perch we call today. It’s when we humbly realize that Lewis is circling …
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There are moments in Scripture where the closer an individual is to God, the closer he or she is to the dangerous divide between creature and creator. Jesus’ command to be perfect, as Lewis points out in the July 9 reading of A Year with C.S. Lewis, is a reflection …
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The readings for June in A Year with C.S. Lewis begin with Lewis espousing the truth of the resurrection and conversing on what it means when applied to the hope we have in resurrection, and, ultimately, in Heaven. It’s an effective progression. On June 4, for example, Lewis reminds us …
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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. As is widely known, …
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If you’ve been reading A Year with C.S. Lewis, the last several days have circled around pride, a subject that will continue through the week. “The Christians are right,” says Lewis, “it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the …
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We like to ask why. Young children ask why about everything they see. They do it out of a sense of wonder and curiosity. Perhaps that’s one reason why Jesus invites little children to his side, because the so-called rational and reasonable approaches of adults haven’t taken hold in them. …
Read MoreAs many CSLewis.com readers will know, Lent begins this week with Ash Wednesday. It’s a day that recognizes 40 days until the passion of the cross, and it’s a brutal reminder of our own mortality. Many traditions hold a service where the ash from last year’s palms (from Palm Sunday) …
Read MoreFrom the Publisher: To celebrate 2013, the e-book edition of A Year with C. S. Lewis is on sale for $3.99 today through January 22! CLICK HERE for more info. In conjunction with this special promotion, we’ll be featuring content from A Year with C. S. Lewis on this blog …
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In writing through the pain of losing his wife, Lewis says that a picture is not good enough. He wants her. No resemblance or icon that approaches her likeness is enough. In the same way he says that he needs Christ and not something that resembles him and that his …
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