C S Lewis

Conspiracy Theory, The Machine and Horrid Red Things — The thoughts presented here by no means exhaust any of the concepts referred to, and some extrapolations may seem over simplistic — because they are. What is intended is a general overview of a state of things from a perspective that has began to come into clearer view for me…

For his part, C.S. Lewis offers something of a Protestant counterbalance to Tolkien’s mythopoeia. The division between these two friends begins around the time that their respective works began to take more of their attention. While the two men were colleagues at Oxford, circulating in one another’s orbit, their shared…

Below are excerpts from Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis. I feared for my soul; especially on certain blazing moonlight nights in that curtainless dormitory-how the sound of other boys breathing in their sleep comes back! The effect, so far as I can judge, was entirely good. I began seriously…

With protracted illness grief can begin insidiously years in advance of the passing of a loved one. Loss of roles and distortion of personhood invites death as a reliever of suffering, ambivalence and longing. I was helpless and hopeless witnessing her diminishment spanning 5 years. My mother died only several…