Turning Toward

"And so affection, besides being a love itself, can enter into the other loves and colour them all through and become the very medium ...

This weekend was filled with graduation festivities and family, first here in Tucson with so many dear friends who just completed their ti...

"If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specifi...

Continuing Chaos in Libya, Summer 2011, photo via MSNBC As someone who studies ethnic conflict, I love Lewis' thoughts on patriot...

"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in otherways. But nature gav...

Found via Pinterest (if you know the original source, please send it to me) This quote, from the first chapter of  The Four Loves , i...

[Note: Read the "Living with Lewis: Beauty" post before reading this post] There is a second part to this discussion of beauty,...

In the first chapter of  The Four Loves , Lewis discusses our "Likings and Loves for the Sub-Human," the things we like, the pl...

Before launching into the real content of his book, Lewis gives one last warning in his introduction to The Four Loves  regarding the diffe...

As you might know from last week's post, I am working my way through Lewis' book, The Four Loves . Right now I'm still in the ...

Tuesdays with Lewis is back! I've started re-reading his book,  The Four Loves,  which is probably my favorite book by him. If you have...

“Look your hardest, dear. I wouldn’t hide if I could. We didn’t idealize each other. We tried to keep no secrets. You knew most of the rot...

“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of ‘No answer.’ It is not the locked door. It is more l...

I've never been able to nail down what God looks like. Every time I seem to have a grasp on what God’s up to or who he is, he always ...

“The notes have been about myself, and about H. (his wife), and about God. In that order. The order and the proportions exactly what they...

I must confess I never saw myself as the “marrying type.” Of course, I always wanted to be married someday. But that someday was somewhe...

I am a bad listener. I try not to be. I do try quite hard to be a good listener- for my friends, my family. I’ve actually become quite g...

The only thing worse than being in pain is watching someone you love in pain. Or at least that’s how it is for me. And now I’m dating som...

For most of my life, I’ve struggled with the question of whether I truly believe that God is good. There’s always that question in the b...

I finished A Grief Observed  the other night. It’s amazing (per usual for C.S. Lewis). Anyways, I’m on my second read through it now. I...