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Prince Caspian

"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.” Author: C.S. Lewis I’m finally doing it – reading in my late 30s what everyone else read in their childhood: the Chronicles of Narnia series. I just finished the second (or fourth, depending on the order you prefer to read them in) book in the series: Prince Caspian. In Prince Caspian Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter are ushered back to Narnia. One minute, they’re sitting in a train station, waiting to go off for another school year. Narnia is a distant memory. Perhaps something that was [...]

2025-12-15T20:33:53-07:00December 15th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Life Observed, A

A Reframing of Lewis' Surprised By Joy Author: Devin Brown For the C.S. Lewis Fellowship Life & Writings course (which I ended up not finishing this year, but intend to pick up again) we delve into the man, C.S. Lewis himself, starting with his life and then his writings. The program is not about an academic standpoint, but an application standpoint, to help fellows learn from Lewis’ writings and apply his message to the discipleship of heart and mind. As such, we kick-off by reading Devin Brown’s A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis, which is more of a [...]

2025-12-14T15:06:51-07:00December 14th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Great Divorce, The

"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows." Author: C.S. Lewis In The Great Divorce a dreaming man (Lewis himself) takes an allegorical bus ride from hell to heaven. The story, surreal and dreamlike, yet also sharp with Lewis’ keen insight on humanity and how we strive to deceive ourselves and others, tackles the big questions: why does God allow a hell and why does He send creatures He supposedly loves to hell? The basic tenant of the story is that people choose hell. Ultimately, they love sin more than goodness, and if ferried from the depths of hell to heaven, [...]

2025-10-29T13:33:57-07:00October 29th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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