‘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…’

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

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

Yet, for those who love the gospel, perhaps we will see him still as he was originally made: A man reflecting deeply on the judgment of God as he looked across the masses. The next time I drive onto campus I will look to him not as Poet, or Philosopher, but as a Preacher reminding me of an immanent judgment and the need for gospel proclamation

“Doubt, in its nobler aspect – honest, unwilling, morally earnest doubt, – has been a John the Baptist to prepare the way for His coming.” – Clyde Van Dyke (from lecture at Yale circa 1895) ……………………………………………. What if the darkest night of the soul served as a precursor to the most glorious rising of the