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C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis on Reading Old Books

January 23, 2009

A bit of reading for you for a winter Friday: an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s preface to Athanasius: On the Incarnation.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found [...]

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Items of Interest

January 5, 2009

Good morning to you, friends.  Here is our quote for the day – by C.S. Lewis, writing in Mere Christianity in 1952.
The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day [...]

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