Tag: C.S. Lewis

Lewis Group Picture

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I’ve you’re reading articles about Lewis, you’ll quite often see this picture of Lewis and a number of other men sitting on a short wall:

I recently saw this article from the Sydney Morning Herald which included a cropped version of this picture, identifying the men, from left-to-right as J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis. However, this is incorrect!

The men in the above picture are Commander James Dundas-Grant, Colin Hardie, Dr. Robert E. Havard, C.S. Lewis, and Peter Havard. They are sitting on the Thames River embankment parapet wall at The Trout pub. Behind them (out of shot) is the old Chinese style wooden bridge, leading over to the island which had a stone lion statue on it.

What have you got against Christianity?

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I’m friends on Facebook with a gentleman who was one of the assistant ministers at a Protestant parish I used to attend. He has since become the vicar of a different parish in another part of the country. For the purposes of this post, I’m going to call him Father Tow.

A few weeks ago, I had a rather strange conversation with Father Tow. It was prompted by his posting the following image on Facebook:

Being a huge C.S. Lewis fan, I immediately recognized that this was a common misquotation. What Lewis actually wrote was:

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it, I see everything else.”

C.S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?”, The Weight of Glory

I therefore commented on the picture, saying that it’s a great quotation, but that it’s not quite what Lewis wrote.

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C.S. Lewis Recording

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I often meet people who think that C.S. Lewis was English. He wasn’t, he was actually born and raised in Belfast. However, if anyone has heard one of the few remaining recordings of Lewis, they could easily be forgiven for this mistake since he has a remarkably “plummy” English accent.

Below you’ll find YouTube videos containing all the remaining audio of Lewis which I can find…

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