Creation
Red sky is only sun’s refracted light. Green shades of plants are colored by mere chance. White strands of clouds, just vapors in our sight. Stars are not illumined, heavenly […]
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Category: Issue One
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 for audience of the day, as well as timeless. Subtitled Reflections on […]
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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 cosmos. Whether it be the swashbuckling defense of humanity in Captain Kirk […]
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The Death of Freedom
“…God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.” Mankind must choose between those irreconcilable opposites, as stated by Whitaker Chambers in his book Witness.[1] Chambers said that two faiths […]
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The Separation of Narnia and Tao
The Last Battle, CS Lewis’ beautiful conclusion to the Chronicles of Narnia, begins with the undermining of truth. Once the people surrender their beliefs in the actual objective truths in […]
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“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 is something that they need to be saved from. The emotion of disgust, especially […]
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Searching the Stars
Last weekend, my youngest daughter and I attended a “Sky Party” offered at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park campground. Beneath the dark and wonderfully star-studded sky, we fleece-clad campers sat […]
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From The Green Book to The River: Lewis, Relativism, and Constructivism in Education
Looking for an endorsement, a publisher sent an elementary grammar textbook to C. S. Lewis for review. What he read within, based as it was on a relativistic worldview, so […]
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Dear Reader
Dear Reader, An Unexpected Journal is a labor of love. In a way, it is the natural outcropping of our collective education at Houston Baptist University where we all met […]
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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 given up We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets […]
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