According to Wheaton College professor Wayne Martindale, C. S. Lewis, the creator of the Narnia Chronicles, “had no natural fondness for church-going. He found the sermons often dull, and he disliked hymns and organ music, which he described as “one long roar.” He felt like “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”[1] Yet Lewis discovered the …
Nothing in my hand I bring
Last week, I suggested that, in his inaugural sermon at the Nazareth synagogue (Lk 4:16-21), and in the Beatitudes which must have been taught very soon after, Jesus echoed the words of Isaiah 61:1-7. I said that Jesus came to change the world, to turn the world upside down, to right wrongs, to pour out compassion, …
How to face the reality of evil
Psalm 4:1-8 Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.[1] That was American historian Timothy Snyder, …
Mountains of Scripture (1): Mount Eden
A sermon by Rod Benson Image: Erastus Salisbury Field, "The Garden of Eden," oil on canvas, c.1860. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This is the first of a series of addresses on mountains mentioned in the Bible. You won’t find Mount Eden on Google Earth, in an atlas, or even in the Book of Genesis. …
Love’s as warm as tears
An Easter poem by C. S. Lewis: Love’s as warm as tears,Love is tears:Pressure within the brain,Tension at the throat,Deluge, weeks of rain,Haystacks afloat,Featureless seas betweenHedges, where once was green Love’s as fierce as fire, Love is fire:All sorts–Infernal heatClinkered with greed and pride, Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,Laughing, even when denied, And that empyreal flame Whence …
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