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• Prayer in Time of Grief

  
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    O come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heavenly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel.       Hattip to A Catholic Mom in Hawaii.  Since the death of my son Larry I have [...]
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• C.S. Lewis on the Gospels

  
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  “All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, thats my job...And Im prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. Ive read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the ...
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• Moving from the outside in

  
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  photo credit: faungg Hebrews 10:19-25 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ...
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• 365 Things I Believe: Believing

  
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  365 Things I Believe is a revisioning of a year long web project. I initially launched the blog 365 Things I Believe because I think there are important things I have to say. There are eternal truths that are non-debatable, although I realize they’re not universally accepted. So for a year I did a daily … ...
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• “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your...

  
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  “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin ...
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• Convergence

  
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  In "Insiders and Outsiders" Alan Jacobs notes a convergence of attitude by "the real Left" and "tradtionalists" like him concerning the growing power of "the surveillance state." .... We suspect the vast and ever-increasing powers of the militaristic surveillance state for very similar reasons: we see its infinite ...
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• Barefoot on the Sun

  
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  Walking barefoot on the sunAcross our auburn deckLifes bright shadowFalls over meTakes me inSeeping from sole to soulHoly warmthHeals my heartBrews me slowlyLike sun teaOut all day
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• My Book of the Day: The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magicians Nephew

  
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  I havent got myself to write actual poems, so in the meantime, I would be posting the books I am currently reading. And just yesterday, I finished "The Magicians Nephew," the first book (chronologically) in the Narnia series. I searched for this book for a very long time (a year, in fact) in different bookshops, and ...
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• The Inner Ring

  
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  “Until you conquer the fear of being an outsider, an outsider you will remain.” C.S. Lewis   Who is in your inner ring ? And how are your choices based on those members and their perceptions?  
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• Confidence in ourselves, or in Jesus?

  
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  I came across something today that I thought was an interesting thing. It’s about how things have changed since the 70s and how our view about ourselves, and how these … Continue reading →
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• Currently Reading: The Chronicles of Narnia

  
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  I decided to ignore all my Book Expo America books for the moment and (re)read the entire Chronicles of Narnia . I’m pretty sure I’ve read them all before, but I don’t remember more than three or four. I DO remember The Magician’s Nephew being my favorite, though now that I’ve reread it I don’t know ...
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• HarperCollins announces BookSmash app contest as Big Book tries to take back the tech

  
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  In the latest push by Big Publishing to win back ground lost to digital disruption, Big Six house HarperCollins has announced a competition, BookSmash, for developers “to create excellent, functioning software and proof of concept apps utilizing the HarperCollins OpenBook API.” The competition comes with a first ...
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• Update on CS Lewis Memorial in Westminster Abbey: Now with an Anthem

  
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  I’m very excited about the CS Lewis in Poets’ Corner project, because 1) it’s a brilliant idea that’s being executed extremely well, and 2) it’s being organized by my friend and colleague Dr Michael Ward. I am pleased to report that the project now has an additional element: a memorial anthem ! The ...
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• There Has Been Some Sort of Catastrophe

  
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  Soon after his conversion, C. S. Lewis wrote The Pilgrim’s Regress which was first copyright in 1933.  It is a deeply insightful allegory of Lewis’ own journey that led him to the Lord.  At one point, the main character, John, and his companion Vertue come up to a huge canyon.  Near the edge of the canyon ...
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• Be Painted

  
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  Remember - He is the artist and you are only the picture. You cant see it. So quietly submit to be painted. [C.S. Lewis]  Deuteronomy 30:6 ... And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. ...
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• Rowan Williams – The Lion’s World [Feature Review]

  
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  Exploring Narnia A Feature Review of The Lion’s World: A Journey Into the Heart of Narnia Rowan Williams Hardback: Oxford UP, 2013 Buy now:  [  ]  [  ] Reviewed by Peter Stevens   Recently, while discussing the role of fictional stories in spiritual formation with my students, I found myself returning to the ...
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• No Needs in Hell

  
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  The trouble is, they have no Needs. You get everything you want (not very good quality, of course) just by imagining it. That’s why it never costs any trouble to move to another street or build another house. In other words, there’s no proper economic basis for any community life. If the needed real shops, chaps ...
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• A 10-Point Summary of Chris Brauns’s Book on the Principle of the Rope

  
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  Chris Brauns, Bound Together: How We Are Tied to Others in Good and Bad Choices (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013), 179–82: In The Problem of Pain , C. S. Lewis set out to write a Christian reflection on suffering. Soon enough, he arrived at the doctrine of original sin. . . . Inevitably, a consideration of the ...
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• CS Lewis exposes the humbling reality when anyone prays

  
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  C. S. Lewis was a great burster of pride’s balloons. His Screwtape Letters are a masterful model in how to do that. But he was only able to take aim with such accuracy that because he had come face to face with his own pride. And these two poems illustrate that perfectly. They take seriously the distorting effects ...
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• 20 Tweetable C.S. Lewis Quotes

  
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  After trying to find a few tweetable words of wisdom recently (yes, "tweetable" is officially a word now despite what my spell checker says) and failing to find much of anything that wasnt already on Twitter, I felt that was an injustice that simply couldnt stand. Thus began a new series were calling 20 ...
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