C. S. Lewis 101: A Brief Introduction

Posted by Andrew on Mar 29, 2017 in Articles, Book News, Exhortations, Meditations | 0 comments Who was C. S. Lewis? Why should you care? In this hour-long talk, I answered those questions for Holy Spirit Episcopal Church on 26 March 2017. Enjoy!
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C. S. Lewis Got it Wrong: A Reliable Date for Theistic Conversion?

Posted by Andrew on Aug 8, 2013 in Articles | 0 comments (NB: This expanded version contains some significant information edited out of the First Things version, which they edited for space.) In March of 2013, a debate began here about Alister McGrath’s new biography of C. S. Lewis and the re-dating of Lewis’s Theistic conversion. Since then, an unpublished autobiographical manuscript of that conversion has come to light, settling the question...
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Little is Much

Posted by Andrew on Jul 8, 2013 in Articles, Exhortations | 0 comments In Matthew 9: 22 (ESV) “Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, ‘Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.’ And instantly the woman was made well.” God turned to her. He saw her. He told her to take heart, and He called her “daughter.” And He affirmed that the thing she had wanted for so long had been done in her life. And He pointed not to His own...
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Did C. S. Lewis Get It Wrong?

Posted by Andrew on Feb 19, 2013 in Articles, Book News, Links | 0 comments A Newly-Transcribed Manuscript Corrects the Chronology of C. S. Lewis’s Theistic Conversion For me it all began, not with a picture, but with an overheard conversation. Last summer, while at the delightful Marion E. Wade Center doing research for a book project on Till We Have Faces, I eavesdropped a discussion concerning an unpublished manuscript by C. S. Lewis that had been labeled as an...
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