{"id":7131,"date":"2013-11-23T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:06:19","slug":"catholic-bucket-list-6-read-some-cs-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/23\/catholic-bucket-list-6-read-some-cs-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bucket List #6: Read some CS Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Today we have something of a rather odd Catholic Bucket List item:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Catholic Bucket List #6: Read some CS Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17635\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cs-lewis.jpg\" alt=\"cs-lewis\" width=\"380\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cs-lewis.jpg 475w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cs-lewis-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is something of an odd Bucket List item since CS Lewis isn&#8217;t, in fact, Catholic. However, he is an absolutely terrific writer. This year I have read four C.S. Lewis books and have been so impressed by his depth of thought and refined style. His insight into\u00a0spiritual\u00a0battle and temptation in <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>The Screwtape letters<\/em><\/span> is so insightful. His articulation of the Christian faith in <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Mere Christianity<\/em><\/span> is just superb.<\/p>\n<p>However, you don&#8217;t have to read this theological works to\u00a0fulfill\u00a0this bucket list item though. Lewis was a writer of some wonderful fiction. I grew up with my mother and sister reading <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>The Chronicles of\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><i>Narnia<\/i><\/span>\u00a0to me and they were some of the first books I read myself when I was able. In fact, I would go so far as to invite you, if you have not yet read them, to read <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em><\/span>. In the past few years I have made new friends who have never read them before. When I discover this to be the case, I immediately go out and buy a set for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have something of a rather odd Catholic Bucket List item: Catholic Bucket List #6: Read some CS Lewis This is something of an odd Bucket List item since CS Lewis isn&#8217;t, in fact, Catholic. However, he is an absolutely terrific writer. This year I have read four C.S. Lewis books and have been so impressed by his depth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1191,322,1997,2969,580],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-baptist","tag-bucket-list","tag-catholic-bucket-list","tag-featured","tag-saint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7131"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56188,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions\/56188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}