The Making of a Hero
Courage comes in many forms. There is the courage of the moment when an individual rises to a challenge. There is the courage that is found in a group, a […]
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Tag: C.S. Lewis
God the Great Iconoclast: C.S. Lewis’s Personal Theodicy
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. […]
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For What Purpose
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, […]
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Finding Faith in Fairy Tales: Answers for Modern Skeptics from C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair
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 […]
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Sneaking Past Watchful Dragons: Imaginative Apologetics and the Games We Play
“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 […]
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Literary Apologetics: A Spell for the Refreshment of Spirit
“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 […]
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Lewis in La La Land
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? […]
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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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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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