"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Since Thanksgiving is often characterized by arguments around the dinner table with family, I thought it would be appropriate to post a debate today. This is the debate between Trent Horn and Raphael Lataster on the existence of God:
Okay, I’ll stop quoting Chan for a bit, I promise…
“It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
We have finally made it! In today’s episode we draw to a close our journey through “Mere Christianity”. Lewis closes out Book IV by talking in more detail about “The New Men”…
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Episode 41: The New Men (Download)
A little bit of classic Matt Redman today…
Bless the Lord oh my soul
Oh my soul
Worship His Holy name
Sing like never before
Oh my soul
I’ll worship Your Holy name
The sun comes up
It’s a new day dawning
It’s time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass
And whatever lies before me
Let me be singing
When the evening comes
You’re rich in love
And You’re slow to anger
Your name is great
And Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness
I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons
For my heart to find
And on that day
When my strength is failing
The end draws near
And my time has come
Still my soul will
Sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years
And then forevermore
Forevermore
This past week I’ve been working my way through Becoming Mrs Lewis by Patti Callahan, a novelisation of the relationship and romance between my hero, C.S. Lewis, and Joy Davidman. I hadn’t known that much about either Joy or her writings prior to starting this book, most of which was gleaned from the rather unreliable Shadowlands movie.
I have to say that, by the time I finished this book, my appetite had greatly increased to know more about this fascinating woman. In fact, I immediately ordered two books by Dr. Don King, one an edited collection of her letters, and another of her poetry, short extracts of which we were treated to at the start of each chapter.
The book is beautifully written. I can’t emphasize that enough. Patti Callahan took me on a journey. I couldn’t help be drawn in as I travelled with Joy, experiencing the highs of her trip to England, as well as the lows of her crumbling marriage.
We’re currently going through “Surprised By Joy” at the moment in our book club and I wanted to assemble a workable chronology for the events of C.S. Lewis’ life and the years in which he published…
1898 – Born in Belfast (November 29th)
1905 – Family moves to “Little Lea”
1908 – Mother (Flora Lewis) dies
1910 – Attends Campbell College
1911 – Attends Cherbourg House, Malvern
1913 – Enters Malvern College
1914 – Begins tutoring with W.T. Kirkpatrick in Surrey
1917 – Starts at University College, Oxford
1918 Wounded in action
1919 – Spirits in Bondage: A cycle of lyrics
1923 – Graduated from Oxford University
1925 – Hired as a don in English
1926 – Dymer
1929 – Father (Albert Lewis) dies
1929 – Becomes a theist
1931 – Becomes a Christian
1933 – The Pilgrim’s Regress
1936 The Allegory of Love
1938 – Out of the Silent Planet
1939 Rehabilitations and Other Essays
1939 The Personal Heresy
1942 – The Screwtape Letters
1942 – A Preface to Paradise Lost
1943 – Perelandra
1945 – That Hideous Strength
1945 – The Great Divorce
1949 – The Weight of Glory
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1951 – Prince Caspian
1952 – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
1952 – Meets Joy Davidman
1953 – The Silver Chair
1954 – The Horse and His Boy
1954 – Hired as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University
1954 – English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama
1955 – Surprised By Joy
1956 – Marries Joy Davidman in a civil ceremony
1957 – Marries Joy Davidman in an Anglican ceremony
1958 – Reflections on the Psalms
1960 – The World’s Last Night and other essays
1960 – Studies in Words, The Four Loves
1961 – An Experiment in Crticism
1961 – A Grief Observed
1963 – Lewis dies at home (November 22nd)
1964 – Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
1964 – Poems
1964 – The Discarded Image: An introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
1966 – Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
1966 – On Stories: And other essays on literature
1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
1967 – Letters to an American Lady
1970 – God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
1977 – The Dark Tower and Other stories
1979 – They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves
1980 – The Weight of Glory (Expanded version)
1985 – Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis
1985 – C.S. Lewis’ Letters to Children
1991 – All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927
1994 – Letters of C.S. Lewis
Some rather amusing stand-up about growing up Catholic in Ireland: