In 2003, Oxford fellow Michael Ward discovered a secret imaginative scheme which C.S. Lewis had embedded into The Chronicles of Narnia. Comparing Lewis’s poem “The Planets” to his discussion of […]
“We need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an […]
“He who changes the sports is secretly changing the manners of the young.” -Plato, The Laws, Book VII In The Laws, Plato says, “he who changes the sports is […]
City of stars Are you shining just for me? City of stars There’s so much that I can’t see Who knows? Is this the start of something wonderful and new? […]
“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a storyteller.”[1] ~ G.K. Chesterton As Christian apologists, we at An Unexpected […]
Since the first sunrise of creation, mankind has relied on story to make sense of a chaotic world. When we experience seemingly random events happening in isolation, storytelling can serve […]
Why did Lewis write The Chronicles of Narnia? What purpose did he have in mind when he penned one of the world’s most popular series of books? In his essay, […]
In his Summa, Thomas Aquinas recognized that the problem of evil was perhaps the most potent objection one could make to the goodness or even the existence of God.[1] C.S. […]
“If a man feels that all the movements of his own mind are meaningless, then his mind is meaningless, and he is meaningless; and it does not mean anything to […]
