“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Screw your courage to the sticking place
My friend Erika Franz tipped me off to this amazing video series, C.S. Lewis Doodle. (The embedding feature is disabled, but do check it out.) I haven’t watched them all yet, but I’m impressed with with what I’ve seen so far in the two from The Screwtape Letters. Those videos use the amazing radio theater […]
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You’ll never finish
And that’s okay. It’s to be expected, actually. C.S. Lewis wrote, “The second enemy is frustration–the feeling that we shall not have time to finish. If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem […]
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Advice to self
A little bit of preaching to myself. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:34 ESV) Thus, make sure to get your dosage pattern designed female viagra pill by the doctor. You can choose the levitra on line […]
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Weaker brothers (and sisters)
A passage that came to mind while yielding for pedestrians in the parking lot, from The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: I think I warned you before that if your can’t be kept out of the Church, he ought to at least be violently attached to some party within it. I don’t mean on really […]
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Careless Lives
If Christianity is true why are not all Christians obviously nicer than all non-Christians? What lies behind that question is partly something very reasonable and partly something that is not reasonable at all. The reasonable part is this. If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions–if he continues to be just […]
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Terrible Tuesday: breathing room
After last week (and the week before that, and the week before that), I need a break. We’re doing a whole lot of nothing this week. Well, not nothing. I’ve got a project and homeschool planning, and we still have to do our summer school schedule. We’re doing a whole lot of going nowhere. Well, a […]
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People are people
I know that sounds very obvious, but I’ve been thinking a great deal (for a number of different reasons and in different circumstances) about Charlotte Mason’s wonderful observations, “Children are born people.” My reading today in A Year with C.S. Lewis(af) is from one of my favorite essays (in my favorite collection of essays) […]
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Preparation for a new day
From today Table Talk devotional: “[S]in often takes things that the law says are good in themselves and deceives us into making them ultimate goods, that is idols. If we rest all our hope in achieving something that the law says is good — obedient children, a good name, and so forth — we might […]
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Solitary musings on a Sunday
“No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in […]
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Impulses
For some reason, this passage resonated with me, particularly in thinking about the news of the day and politics — and movements and crusaders for causes of all stripes. “It is a mistake to think that some of our impulses — say mother love or patriotism — are good, and others, like sex or the […]
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