Category: Joy
Again, I Say
In Their Mother’s Arms is a post-apocalyptic dystopia set on two islands: OPS, the false utopia...
Joy: A Photo Essay
Citation Information Tommy Darin Liskey, “Joy: A Photo Essay,” An Unexpected Journal:...
‘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...
Review: Mere Evangelism
Randy Newman, Mere Evangelism: 10 Insights from C. S. Lewis to Help You Share Your Faith. Surrey,...
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...
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,...
The Shoes
Nick and his two sisters descended the stairs into the basement of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church....
Broken Blessings / Jubilee
“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more...
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...
Joy in the Mind of the Reader
Why do some people like books so much? What is it about arbitrary lines of ink sequenced on a page...
Joy (And Truth and Love)
Few words fall more glibly from Christian tongues than Joy. Yet few experiences are more...
Joy in the Mystery
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those...
Gratitude and the Happiness Machine
What if there was a happiness machine? Leo Auffmann, a central character in Ray Bradbury’s...
Joy – Brief
True joy is not some fleeting temporal thing contingent on circumstance. Abiding joy is a gift...
Home at Last / Song of Songs
Home At Last Homesick hungry weary lonely, Hearts beleaguered, yet unbowed. Still we seek thee...
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...
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...
Worth Reading: A Worthy Successor of Lewis and Tolkien: A Review of A Green and Ancient Light by Frederic S. Durbin
Move over, Mr. Tumnus. There’s a new faun in town to vie for the hearts of readers of fantastical...
