In Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (191) Nancy Pearcey shows how C.S. Lewis argued against the Atheists’ ability to defend the possibility of thinking. If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains…
That’s Why I’m Fighting Him
One of my favorite parts in Lewis’s Prince Caspian is a part where Peter is having a dual with an evil king. At one point, there is a break in the fighting. The dual isn’t going Peter’s way, and his…
When C.S. Lewis Wasn’t C.S. Lewis
In his highly recommended biography of C.S. Lewis, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Alan Jacobs reflects on the change in Lewis’s life after he became a Christian. Jacobs says that in Lewis’s older writings he…
The Problem is Not That We Want Too Much: We Want Too Little
C.S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory and Other Sermons: Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not…
C.S. Lewis: “We Make Men Without Chests and Expect of them Virtue”
Our culture clamors for honor – – while making character impossible. It is hypocritical to say that nothing defines what is true and noble – – and then ask young people to act in ways that are decent and good.…
Keller and Piper Talk C.S. Lewis
In 1973 one of my elementary school textbooks included an excerpt from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I read it and was hooked. I’vebeen reading Lewis off and on for the last 40 years. Below Tim Keller and…
C.S. Lewis and Faith and Reason
Watch this and you will not only get to know C.S. Lewis, you will also learn more about why faith is reasonable (and atheism is not!) HT: Z See also: C.S. Lewis and His Last Hurdle to Faith
C.S. Lewis and His Last Hurdle to Belief
One of the final steps in C.S. Lewis’s conversion was for him to accept the truth that Christians can truly be united or “Bound Together” with Christ. In his excellent new biography of C.S. Lewis, Alister McGrath does more than…
C.S. Lewis: The Possibility of Short Term Defeat Makes the Adventure
One of my favorite parts in Prince Caspian is when Peter duals an evil king. In the beginning, the dual isn’t going Peter’s way, and his brother Edmund asks during a break in the fight, “I say, Peter, you can…
C.S. Lewis: “Christianity is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up”
C.S. Lewis said that one of the reasons that he believes Christianity is that it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. In Mere Christianity, he wrote: Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not…