On Christmas Day this year, our friend Brenton Dickieson published the following on his blog. Having enjoyed it myself, I had to pass it along to you: “Always winter and never Christmas.” This is the condition where we first discover Narnia in The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. It is not so much blanketed
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How To Pray, Ch. 15: Something Hard to Understand
C. S Lewis was an intellectual. Therefore, when he came to the Christian faith, he approached Christian belief intellectually. It is no surprise that he ran into problems! In Letter 11 of Letters to Malcolm – which is the substance of chapter 15 of How To Pray – Lewis tries to deal with a problem
How To Pray, ch. 14: An Appetite for God
In chapter 14 of How To Pray from HarperOne, C. S. Lewis raises the issue of the benefit of a sacramental understanding of the Creation in which we dwell and worship. The summary question, provided by the chapter heading, is “How Can We Be Like David and Pray with Delight?” The obvious answer is to
How To Pray ch 12: Abandon to God
In chapter 12 of the new HarperOne book, How To Pray, we have a meditation on a specific prayer by Lewis, originally in his essay “A Slip of the Tongue” found in The Weight of Glory. He relates an experience wherein he was praying this prayer from the Book of Common Prayer: “O GOD, the
A Word of Grace – February 26, 2019
Dear Friends, Thanks for all the good comments on last week’s message about healing from childhood abuse. It took me three weeks to write it in the right spirit and to build the courage to send it out. My thoughts resonated in the soul and experience of many of you and I appreciate the responses