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Atheists & The Rest of Us

“There’s no God. Go ahead and enjoy your life.” Perhaps you’ve seen a similar billboard in your city. Christians can be tempted to overreact to such marketing campaigns. Have you considered how Bible themed billboards might engender a similar response from secularists? “Hell is real!” This sign stands in stark contrast to the billboard advertising

The Display of Divine Morality

The follow is an excerpt from a Robert Browning poem entitled Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day published in a compilation of Browning’s works in 1867. I was introduced to Browning through G.K. Chesterton, who considered Browning his favorite poet. Take all in a word: the truth in God’s breast Lies trace for trace upon ours impressed: Though

The Sermon and the Lunch: C.S. Lewis On Family Life

‘And so’, said the preacher, ‘the home must be the foundation of our national life. It is there, all said and done, that character is formed. It is there that we appear as we really are. It is there we can fling aside the weary disguises of the outer world a be ourselves. It is there that we retreat from the noise and stress and temptaion and dissipation of daily life to seek the sources of fresh strength and renewed purity…’

Is Theology Poetry?

In 1944 C.S. Lewis presented a lecture entitled, “Is Theology Poetry?,” to the Oxford Socratic Club. The following is an excerpt from that presentation: “I was taught at school, when I had done a sum, to ‘prove my answer.’ The proof or verification of my Christian answer to the cosmic sum is this. When I

An Open Letter To An Artist

Criticism should be private, and praise a public affair. Unfortunately, in our modern day milieu, the opposite is more likely to occur. We can be guilty of what the Apostles rightly lamented in Acts, “They have beaten and imprisoned us publicly, yet want to release us privately?” Affirmation is often a concealed matter, as though