Category: The Abolition of Man
The Separation of Narnia and Tao
The Last Battle, CS Lewis’ beautiful conclusion to the Chronicles of Narnia, begins with the...
Dear Reader
Dear Reader, An Unexpected Journal is a labor of love. In a way, it is the natural outcropping of...
The Abolition of Students
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.[1] ...
The Death of Freedom
“…God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.” Mankind must choose between those...
“Will These Hands Ne’er be Clean?”: C.S. Lewis and the Apologetic Response to the Themes of Macbeth
Before anyone can accept the idea of salvation through Christ, they must first realize that there...
Searching the Stars
Last weekend, my youngest daughter and I attended a “Sky Party” offered at the...
Abolition of Man as Sci-Fi: C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy
All good sci-fi series have at their heart some unique observation about man and his place in the...
Lewis Among the Ancients … and Moderns
C.S. Lewis’ essay The Abolition of Man, delivered as a set of lectures in 1943, was both timely...
Dragons in Our ‘Darkest Hours’: Slaying All Day the Lewis Way
“It is the magician’s bargain: give up our soul, get power in return But once our souls have been...
