It is quite possible that this post adds up to nothing. But, on this cold-clear day after Christmas, it has two good stories in it, so it is not, I think, a total loss.
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I’m reading Alister McGrath’s new critical biography of C.S. Lewis. I was not sure that we needed another bio of Lewis, but am finding it useful and insightful because he engages Lewis’s writing more fully than the other bios.
Read MoreWe are always coming in on something that is already going on.
Read MoreOne of the most common questions for (and among) Christians, members of a supposedly “exclusive” religion (which I think is bunk), is “What about those who never hear of Jesus?”
Read MoreI have in recent months been surrounded by people who have good reason to want to know what is going to happen to them and to those they care about—involving health, life and death, jobs, relationships, eternal fate, and so on.
Read MoreI am in my home town–Santa Barbara, California–these last three weeks of January. Trying to write, sometimes with a warm sun on my back.
Read MoreReflecting on the rapidity with which your whole life can collapse (in the context of living in Stalinist Russia where you could be an average citizen one day and in the concentration camps the next), Solzhenitsyn says the following: “The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. Each of us is a center of the Universe, and that Universe is shattered when they hiss at you: ‘You are under arrest.'”
Read MoreThe room is maybe five feet by ten feet, an enclosed porch actually. It was Pamela’s inner sanctum (for better and worse). It’s where she went to think and search and smoke and read and think some more and smoke some more.
Read MoreHave you noticed that when you learn a new word, you start noticing it everywhere? Same when you write a book.
Read More“Those who believe in God but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty,without doubt, without an element of despair even in the consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God himself.” Unamuno
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