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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Great Links: Allusions in “The Screwtape Letters” and Popular Authors on Lewis
Anyone with a bit of knowledge of English literature who picks up The Screwtape Letters knows that beneath the letters there is a wealth C.S. Lewis’ own reading. There are always echoes of the canon of literature in Lewis’ work, … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged abolition of man, Ayn Rand, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Perelandra, The Screwtape Letters
9 Comments
Antony Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? A Personal Reflection on “There Is a God” and Apologetics
When it was announced in 2004 that key atheist thinker, Antony Flew, now believed in God, there was a flurry of traditional and new media attention among theological geeks and atheistic thinkers. Very quickly, an ad hominem attack arose—not as … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections, Reviews
Tagged Anselm, Antony Flew, apologetics, Aquinas, Bertrand Russell, C.S. Lewis, john stackhouse, ravi zacharias, richard dawkins, Russell's Teapot, There is a god
16 Comments
Impossible Beauty & Unfulfilled Desire: Screwtape’s Cover Girl Anti-Spirituality
As a bearded man, I am, of course, offended by Screwtape’s devices below. But this clever bit of demonic social programming shows the essentially culturally-bound reality of The Screwtape Letters, but also the universal critiques–in any age, drawing us to … Continue reading
Posted in Memorable Quotes
Tagged Beauty, C.S. Lewis, Cover Girl, impossible beauty, Rihanna, Screwtape, sexual taste, The Impossible, The Screwtape Letters
7 Comments
Screwtape on Pleasure and Distraction
The following excerpt from The Screwtape Letters is, I think, one of C.S. Lewis’ most sublime arguments. The senior demon, Screwtape, is trying to help his new tempting nephew, Wormwood, keep the new Christian sliding away from his faith. Within … Continue reading
Posted in Memorable Quotes
Tagged C.S. Lewis, epistolary fiction, pleasure, Screwtape, temptation, The Screwtape Letters
23 Comments
Another’s Grief Observed: C.S. Lewis In His Own Words
Some years ago I picked up C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed for the first time. I had recently seen Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, and I was curious about Lewis’ own version of the events. My instinctive distrust … Continue reading
Posted in Memorable Quotes, Reflections, Reviews
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The Awkward Conversation in the Face of Death
Like so many others before me, I spent my teenage years working in a pizza joint after school and on weekends. We were not well off, so if I wanted the things that mattered to me in high school—a car, … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged A Grief Observed, Anthony Hopkins, C.S. Lewis, Debra Winger, Douglas Gresham, grief, N.W. Clerk, Shadowlands
8 Comments
Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia by Terry Glaspey
Qoheleth reminds us that “of the writing of books there is no end” (Ecc 12:12)—a proverb no less true in the world of writings about C.S. Lewis. So it is with a little irony and low expectations that I picked … Continue reading
An Old Review of an Album I Still Like: “High Countries” by Caedmon’s Call
This review appeared in Living Light News a few years ago, but the weblink is now lost in cyber dust. Caedmon’s Call are an American acoustic rock band and fellow pilgrim’s in Narnia who draw on authors like Lewis for … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged album review, back home, C.S. Lewis, Caedmon’s Call, Derek Webb, The Great Divorce, the High Countries
4 Comments
Homage to C.S. Lewis in the Adventures of Tin Tin?
On a treasured “Guys Night Out” recently, I took my 7 year old son to see The Adventures of Tintin, a mash of three or four Tin Tin books by dynamic duo Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. It was a … Continue reading
Link: Incredible Web Resources by The Journal of Inklings Studies
I’ve known for some time about The Journal of Inklings Studies. It is a creative literary peer-reviewed academic journal with biannual thematic collections of research and writing about the Inklings–that eclectic collection of thinkers and writers gathered around C.S. Lewis, … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged academic, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Inklings, Journal of Inklings Studies, Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Water
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