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Advent and “The World’s Last Night”
Advent, as I understand it, helps us consider two truths: the birth of Jesus (His first coming) and the return of Jesus (His second coming). That’s a lot to hold together, I think, especially with the strong pull of Christmas … Continue reading
Reading in Lent
One of the practices I’m trying to hold to during the Lenten season is the reading of shorter books. Small thing, I know, but it feels somehow fitting. The season started as I finished up Zena Hitz’s Philosophers Look at … Continue reading
On Forgetting
(Forced) Forgetfulness was a theme in this week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Here’s the trailer for the episode, which gives some hint of the price of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness (forced or otherwise) is also a key thread in The Silver … Continue reading
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Summer-Time Fictions
It’s been a good summer of fiction for me, though I haven’t moved through anything too quickly. The latter half of June was all about The Ferryman by Justin Cronin. Some of my favorite moments reading during the summer involved … Continue reading
The Demonic and The Divine
I’m always impressed with how well C. S. Lewis can articulate truths about the human condition. It’s uncanny to me. I think it’s one big reason why I revisit his work, some of it often. And he does it without … Continue reading
Screwtape on Extremes
My daily New Testament reading for the last couple of weeks was the letter of Ephesians. The letter, one that weaves the theological and the practical together the way the always should be, ends with a popular passage that casts … Continue reading
Prayer and What You Bargain For
Way back at the end of November, I mentioned rereading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. And then I didn’t say much about it. It took me a little longer than I intended (which has been the case in general … Continue reading
“A Little Incarnation”
From the introduction to Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms: It seems to me appropriate, almost inevitable, that when that great Imagination which in the beginning, for Its own delight and for the delight of men and angels and (in their … Continue reading
On Landscapes and People
While I’m moving rather slowly through it, my reading of the Letters of C. S. Lewis has been interesting on multiple levels. Right now I’m in the middle of a long letter from Jack to his brother involving a week-long … Continue reading
Education as Starvation Diet
As with many other areas of life, education tends to be a perpetual victim of trends and fads. Unmoored from any deep-rooted principle or practice, the contemporary classroom and campus now finds itself blown here and there by whatever assertions … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 