‘Father Stu’: A Story of Faith and Flaws, of Dreams and Determination

A priest once said in a homily that, if you find life easy, you’re doing it wrong. Our lives are made increasingly complex with each passing year, as we accumulate […]

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Review: Mere Evangelism

Randy Newman, Mere Evangelism: 10 Insights from C. S. Lewis to Help You Share Your Faith. Surrey, England: The Good Book Company, 2022. 160 pp.   Do you know the […]

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Joy’s Arrival / Hidden in the Boughs

‘Joy’s arrival’ was written in the early months of global lockdowns, at a time where distance felt insurmountable and travel impossible. In the midst of a kind of togetherness in […]

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Meticulous Mycologist: How Beatrix Potter Inspired C. S. Lewis’s Joy

“One autumn when the nuts were ripe, and the leaves on the hazel bushes were golden and green, Nutkin and Twinkleberry and all the other little squirrels came out of […]

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The Shoes

Nick and his two sisters descended the stairs into the basement of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. He looked down at his polished shoes as they hit the pavement next to […]

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Joy: A Photo Essay

    Citation Information Tommy Darin Liskey, “Joy: A Photo Essay,” An Unexpected Journal: Joy 5, no. 3. (Fall 2022), 144-156. Spread the love    Tweet   

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Broken Blessings / Jubilee

“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who […]

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Joy, Happiness, and Scientific Utopia

It is easy to conflate the concepts of joy and happiness, but C.S. Lewis defines joy as a unique phenomenon:  “[A]n unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any […]

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Again, I Say

In Their Mother’s Arms is a post-apocalyptic dystopia set on two islands: OPS, the false utopia island, and D’nalreven, the island where outcast children have made a home. OPS is […]

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Joy (And Truth and Love)

Few words fall more glibly from Christian tongues than Joy.  Yet few experiences are more profoundly central to Christian spirituality as it is presented by the New Testament, and few […]

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