Video Series: What is the point of Christianity?


"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested.
Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
In today’s chapter we begin the actual story of The Great Divorce. Our protagonist, Lewis, finds himself in a grey town at twilight in the rain. He attaches himself to a queue at a bus stop and watches as people leave the line. Eventually the bus arrives and he begins his journey to his mysterious destination…
S2E2: “The bus stop in the Grey Town” (Download)
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Read moreI’ve been listening to a lot of Future of Forestry. They’re surprisingly diverse in their musical choices. Here’s their rendition of “Pie Jesu”:
Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
Merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
Grant them rest, grant them rest
…
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei
Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God
…
Sempiternam requiem
Everlasting peace
Fiction
Sherlock Holmes
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection
Till we have faces
A Severe Mercy
The Weight of Glory
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
The Pilgrim’s Progress
C.S. Lewis and the Church
Tolkien
The Silmarillion
Chesterton
The Everlasting Man
Brant Pitre
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
Jesus the Bridegroom
Spirituality
The Benedict Option
The Power of Silence
Life Together
You and Me Forever
Many are called
Self-Help
Boundaries
Apologetics
Stealing from God
C.S. Lewis Related
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography
C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
If I had lunch with C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis and Narnia for Dummies
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe and the Great War
Tolkien
Islam
Spirituality
Apologetics
I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist
Others