C.S. Lewis on Nature and Reasoning about God
In the Introduction to The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis tells us the reasons he used to give when people would ask him why he was an...
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- May 20, 2020
- 1 min
One Wine is Left in the Broken Bowl
What is left for the cold grey soul That moans like a wounded dove? One wine is left in the broken bowl 'Tis, to love, and love, and...
- May 20, 2020
- 1 min
What Forms Will Your Loves Call Forth?
Here is an audio file of some commentary I gave on Charles Williams' novel, The Place of the Lion. I originally recorded this for my...
- Apr 28, 2020
- 11 min
The Two Gandalfs
The title of this essay is not quite as apt as the titles of my earlier essays on the two Aragorns, Faramirs, and Treebeards. This is...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 11 min
The Two Aragorns
Last week I posted essays on Treebeard and Faramir, two noble characters from the Lord of the Rings whom, I argued, Peter Jackson...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 5 min
Reading Religion in Lord of the Rings
The Ainulindalë is the name of the first part of Silmarillion. It is the creation story of Tolkien's Middle Earth, and demonstrates that...
- Apr 21, 2020
- 5 min
The Two Faramirs
In an earlier post I compared the character Treebeard as we meet him in The Lord of the Rings, with movie-Treebeard as we meet him in...
- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
The Two Treebeards
For those whose first love is Tolkien's original novel, some of the changes made in Peter Jackson's films are bound to be disappointing....
- Feb 12, 2019
- 3 min
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher in Defense of Civilization
Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a toad with a diverse set of friends which includes Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise and Sir Isaac Newton, who is a...