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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Category: Issue Nineteen
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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Joy as Life’s Fuel and Safeguard: Mentalist, Jane Austen, Where the Crawdads Sing, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Love and Thunder
When you’re dead, you’re dead, and until then . . . there’s ice cream. — Patrick Jane, The Mentalist Joy was not a deception. Its visitations were rather the moments […]
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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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Joy – Brief
True joy is not some fleeting temporal thing contingent on circumstance. Abiding joy is a gift from God, and I found it over the course of the most painful event […]
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Home at Last / Song of Songs
Home At Last Homesick hungry weary lonely, Hearts beleaguered, yet unbowed. Still we seek thee ancient beauty Shining prospect glimpsed through cloud. Bright horizon, distant city Where our joy […]
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Worth Reading: Glimpsing Glory: Finding Joy in “What is Heaven Like?”
In his memoir Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis gives the name “joy” to the longing ache that accompanies a particularly striking encounter with beauty or goodness. Distinguishing it from both […]
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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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