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February 2014

February 06, 2014

Downton Abbey: Means to an End?

'Downton Abbey' raises the significant question of whether we ought to treat people as means...

January 2014

January 16, 2014

Downton Abbey: Things We’ve Lost

Warning: This article contains spoilers about the second episode of Downton Abbey’s fourth season. Each week, a...

December 2013

December 04, 2013

About Time: A Romantic Comedy That’s Actually About Love

About Time might seem like a simple rom-com, but guest writer Marybeth Davis Baggett finds...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘The Silver Chair’

"It represents an approach to catechesis, teaching children precepts through memorization—not for the sake of...

November 22, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘Surprised by Joy’

"Surprised by Joy supplied the defect of my Christian upbringing and didactic theology"

November 22, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘The Screwtape Letters’

"The book opened my eyes to a spiritual plane that I had heretofore neglected—to my...

November 21, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘Till We Have Faces’

"It exposes how we see ourselves and project our notions upon God—often quite erroneously and...

November 21, 2013

Celebrating C.S. Lewis: “The Shoddy Lands”

"The lesson is that we should be mindful of the things, people, and ideas in...

November 20, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘That Hideous Strength’

"It is a story of permanent struggle between the sacred and profane, between the earth...

November 20, 2013

Celebrating C.S. Lewis: ‘Perelandra’

The second “Ransom Trilogy” story captivated me with themes of a virginal paradise invaded by...

November 19, 2013

Celebrating C.S. Lewis: ‘A Grief Observed’

"Sometimes all we know of God is his absence, and other times he appears as...

November 19, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘The Problem of Pain’

"Lewis knows the comfort of knowing the truth, especially when it comes to the truth...

November 18, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘The Four Loves’

"It is grace in and of itself that enables any of us to be loved...

November 18, 2013

Celebrating C. S. Lewis: “The Weight Of Glory”

"Our desires indicate the deep ways we long to be acknowledged and known by God."

November 01, 2013

Doctor Who’s Doctrine, Part 7: The Episode I Never Want to See Again

Daleks destroy, angels strike, and monsters chase, but in “Doctor Who” the most horrible villains...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

Why Bad News is Good News for ‘The Silver Chair’

What the Narnia films need is a little hardship.

October 07, 2013

God and Country Music: Eric Church’s “Springsteen” Is Sort of Like Heaven

"Born To Run was in my CD player on my wedding day, so now I...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

ELSEWHERE: C. S. Lewis’s Medieval Modern Imagination

Over at The Imaginative Conservative, Stratford Caldecott has a delightful, intelligent look at C. S....

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Remembering the Signs: God’s Word in a ‘Spell-Mageddon’ World

"We must first 'remember the Signs' and have Scripture sunken so deeply into our being...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

How Royal Baby Fever Points to a Royal Longing (Or: Yes, This is a #JesusJuke)

So, in case you weren't on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or seen every tabloid from here...

July 05, 2013

ELSEWHERE: A Feminist Defense Of C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis is one of Christendom's most beloved authors, due to works like Mere Christianity,...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Why Women Need Better Fairy Tales

Over at The Hairpin, Renee Lupica lists “Six Fairy Tales for the Modern Woman.”  In...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

ELSEWHERE: Ayn Rand Really, Really, Really Disliked C.S. Lewis

First Things recently posted a few excerpts from Ayn Rand's marginal notes on C.S. Lewis' Abolition...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Longing for Fiction

In his text Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, C. S. Lewis writes of fairy stories...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Diapers, for the Glory of God

I got pregnant with my first daughter almost 4 years ago now; I subsequently carried...

October 13, 2010

I Need The Darkness

A song from Arcade Fire's latest puts things into perspective.

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