The House of Christmas by G.K. Chesterton There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are…...
Read MoreI love all the Christmassy stuff. The smell of indoor pine trees. The colors. The movies. The music. You can say I've got a soft spot for the season. Beyond all the fun stuff normal people enjoy about the best time of the year — and, trust me, when it comes this kind of stuff, I'm as normal as they…...
Read More"If there were less good will," C. S. Lewis often said in December correspondence, "then we might have more peace on earth." Lewis found no pleasure in the giving of generic winter cards, gift guilting, and the overall hurried pace of the Christmas season. Lewis went from saying "I hope I am not a Scrooge" in a letter in 1952…...
Read MoreHere's Your Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST). ⊕ Preparing for the Blues ⊕ A Nobel Devotion & a…...
Read MoreIf you were of a PG-13 age in 2009—you likely saw first hand, or at least heard of—the hullabaloo surrounding the release of the movie Avatar. It was a cinematic sight to behold. It captured the imagination of the cultural moment. Everybody was talking about it. But the buzz took a turn for the worse in regards to the movie's…...
Read MoreOver Thanksgiving break I tricked my family into watching a movie I hoped to skip. Maybe it was kind of a jerk thing to do. My nephew and his fiancé wanted to see Wakanda Forever. I wanted to see Devotion. For the record, I've already seen the Black Panther sequel and I loved it. But I wasn't keen on rewatching…...
Read MoreNot long ago, I wrote a post about how a passionate speech by Hitler and boring Sunday sermon inspired C.S. Lewis's demons. In writing the manuscript for the first episode for my podcast Mere Caffeination, I threw in a comment I hadn't thought much about before. I compared C.S. Lewis's diabolical Screwtape Letters to the book of Proverbs. I think…...
Read MoreC.S. Lewis dedicated the Screwtape Letters to his good friend J.R.R. Tolkien, beloved author of the Middle Earth stories. But did Tolkien even like the Screwtape Letters? Unrelated, what was the cave where Tolkien and Lewis’s spent so much time together? Were these two authors into spelunking? And why didn’t Tolkien’s wife let him hang out at C.S. Lewis’s house?…...
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