The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must always have been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.
So begins C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain, a title I’ve long been familiar with but never read. Feeling like [...]
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World without chloroform
Posted in Lewis books, Nonfiction on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Lucy and the book
Posted in Bible, Lewis books on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been struck lately by the uniqueness of the experience of reading the Bible as compared to reading other books. Normally I hate the term “strategy,” but in the same way Lucy goes into the silent and mysterious upstairs of the wise magician’s house in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader armed with a plan [...]
The Great Divorce
Posted in Fiction, Lewis books on January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I read a review of Lewis’s Great Divorce today, and it brought back that excellent book that’s been so important to me. It may be time to read it again, hoping to grasp what I missed the first 4 times.
To me the genius of that book is the way it fleshes out the reality of [...]
Wood for the Week
Posted in Fiction, Lewis books on January 7, 2008 | No Comments »
“Why, if we can get back to our own world by jumping into this pool, mightn’t we get somewhere else by jumping into one of the others? Supposing there was a world at the bottom of every pool.” (Digory)
I found this one here (where it’s a background for a game I’ve never played).
Wood for the Week
Posted in Fiction, Lewis books on December 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In keeping with my longstanding fascination with the Wood between Worlds (since college, as my friend Ruth recently reminded me), I’m instituting a new blog tradition: one picture a week, on Mondays, that depicts (to me, if not to the original artist!) some aspect of the Wood. (The hard part will be choosing which one, since I have [...]
C.S. Lewis on “the whole dreary business”
Posted in Lewis books, Nonfiction on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Lewis’s essay “What Christmas Means to Me” from God in the Dock can be read here, and it’s worthwhile. :-)
The Merry Marshwiggle
Posted in Fiction, Lewis books on November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A friend’s blog touched on Puddleglum of The Silver Chair. I just finished the story and have been strangely encouraged by Puddleglum too–not because he justifies being a Negative Nellie (as I often am), but because this time in reading the story I saw that he has a truly stable, joyful heart. The surface pessimism [...]
Earthman or overworlder?
Posted in Fiction, Lewis books, Nonfiction, Total Truth on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m loving Total Truth. It’s active work to read it, but even at just 50 pages in it’s food for the soul.
For one thing, it takes my own thoughtful nature, polishes it up, and hands it back to me. Sometimes I’m greeted with a shrug, a blank (or vaguely troubled) stare, and “Well, you’re much more analytical than I [...]
Oxford musings
Posted in Biographies, Lewis books on November 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yup, I’ve been flaky about my blog header lately. I think I’ll stay with this photo for awhile, though. Anyone know what path it depicts? (Hint: Phil Keaggy has an instrumental named after it. Tune in next time…)
I’m almost finished with Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. It’s enjoyable to read, but it’s taking me a while [...]
Learning from the masters II
Posted in Biographies, Lewis books on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m fascinated by the “parallel biography” of Lewis and Tolkein that I’m reading. Why am I only now getting interested in the lives of writers I’ve admired? Somehow I guess I’ve thought it would clutter up my reading of their stories to learn too much about them.
But there’s something exciting about discovering that I actually can relate [...]
