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October 2026

October 02, 2026

Aslan with the Female Voice

"The Magician's Nephew" movie from Netflix will be released in February. But controversy has broken...

May 2026

May 22, 2026

Would Evidence of Aliens “Shatter” Christian Beliefs?

President Trump ordered the release of the government's UFO files. Reportedly, some ministers had a...

December 2025

December 03, 2025

The Center of the Universe

According to today's cosmologists, one can say that the universe has no center, so that...

July 2025

July 09, 2025

How C. S. Lewis Helped Make Me a Lutheran

[A Free Post] The online journal SIMUL was putting together an issue on C. S....

March 2024

March 26, 2024

New “Chronicles of Narnia” Movies in the Works

Netflix has started production on a new series of "Chronicles of Narnia" movies that will...

December 2023

December 28, 2023

C. S. Lewis’s “Christmas Sermon for Pagans”

In a recently-discovered uncollected essay from 1946, C. S. Lewis explores the difference between pagans,...

March 2023

March 28, 2023

C. S. Lewis on How Fear & Moral Idealism Beget Tyranny

C. S. Lewis is known for his Christian apologetics and his imaginative fiction, but he...

December 2022

December 23, 2022

“He Comes Down”

Quotations from C. S. Lewis about Christmas. Plus, plans for next week on the Cranach...

December 21, 2022

Dragging Religion into Christmas

C. S. Lewis has a priceless anecdote about the commercialization of Christmas, one that is...

December 16, 2022

What Now After the “Respect for Marriage Act”?

Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land. What does that mean for the...

October 2021

October 08, 2021

My Experience with Conservative Atheism

How wrestling with the ideas of Ayn Rand--her attacks on Christianity and her "virtue of...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Should We Conform to Reality, or Should Reality Conform to Us?

In a review of Jonah Goldberg's The Suicide of the West in The Federalist, John...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

The Newly Discovered “Christmas Sermon for Pagans” by C. S. Lewis

The scholar Stephanie R. Derrick tells about discovering two previously unknown essays by C. S....

May 2017

May 01, 2017

The Silver Chair will reboot the Narnia movies

Plans to film the Chronicles of Narnia are back on, as plans have firmed up...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Conform to reality or subdue reality?

Justin Taylor quotes from C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. Peter Kreeft calls these...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

C. S. Lewis, atheist

C. S. Lewis, one of the foremost Christian apologists, had been for 15 years a convinced...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

The day JFK, Aldous Huxley, & C. S. Lewis died

On November 22, 1963, three icons of the 20th century died: John F. Kennedy, Aldous...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

C.S. Lewis, secret agent?

The discovery of a recording of a lecture by C. S. Lewis has connected him...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

C. S. Lewis on the evils of statism

Statism is the belief that the government should control or dominate all, or much, of...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

An example of imaginative apologetics

Mathew Block asks me to give an example of imaginative apologetics. So I talk about...

May 2014

May 05, 2014

Is Jesus just a legend?

Jesus must be either who He said He was--the Son of God--or He must have...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

When Christianity comes across as dull

The redoubtable Anthony Sacramone tells about how he was influenced--indeed, evangelized--by C. S. Lewis. Mr....

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Happy Lewis/Huxley/Kennedy day!

Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy,...

November 22, 2013

C. S. Lewis on the salvation of Susan

One of the unsettling details in the Chronicles of Narnia is that Susan, one of...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

C. S. Lewis calendar

My friend and former colleague Joel Heck has been doing some exhaustive research on the...

June 2013

June 04, 2013

The Numinous

Many years ago, I read The Idea of the Holy by the Lutheran phenomenologist Rudolph...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

Alister McGrath’s new biography of C. S. Lewis

The British theologian and apologist Alister McGrath has written a new biography of C. S....

November 2012

November 23, 2012

CS Lewis to be added to Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey

Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis. Next year on the...

March 2012

March 15, 2012

C. S. Lewis on Vocation

Have you read C. S. Lewis's "Learning in Wartime"? It's an address to students at...

January 2012

January 05, 2012

No more Narnia movies?

The prospects for more Narnia movies in the near future are not good, as Walden...