Tag Archives: CS Lewis
Here Comes Spring
Jumping around YouTube tonight, an odd way to keep Saturday Vigil for Easter. The Resurrection celebration is around the corner. I come across a brilliant guitarist by the name of Phil Keaggy doing a pretty amazing cover of “Here Comes … Continue reading
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Wandering Tree 2011 Review: A Dialogue with C.S. Lewis
Note: Less a review and more of a reflection. Much thanks to an unknowing Bruce Edwards, who wrote a much more informed and coherent Lewis dialogue here, from which this piece gets its inspiration. Happy New Year to all! … Continue reading
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Rapture: In Other Words, Impatience and Distraction
I would be lying if I said the recent silliness of Harold Camping’s Rapture predictions and the subsequent commentary which followed before and after had not caused an interior restlessness and conflict within me. Not that for one moment I … Continue reading
Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis Book Review by Transpositions
Over at Transpositions guest authors are offering their Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis Book Review: Introduction. Of particular interest to me is an analysis of Lewis as literary critic, as his scholarship colored his philosophy of education. Lewis offers … Continue reading
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Whimsical Imagination and a New Addition to the Forest
The following article over at Transpositions interweaves C.S. Lewis, George Macdonald, GK Chesterton, and Lewis Carroll. The article is really jumpstarting some observations I’ve making on the connection between theology and Pixar. More on that later, perhaps… Whimsical Imagination. Oh, … Continue reading
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C.S. Lewis on Love
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even … Continue reading
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The Avalanche and the Rose
I am currently reading, among other books, Yours, Jack, a collection of letters by C.S. Lewis to various correspondences. I was particularly caught by the imagery he uses in a letter to Edward Lofstrom in January 1959. He is responding … Continue reading
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CS Lewis and The Doctor
Lewis once wrote in a letter to his father in 1926 “Will you think me affected if I number a small illness among the minor pleasures of life? Work is impossible and one can read all day for mere … Continue reading
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A Bit of Winter Cleaning: A New Forest for the ‘Tree
Welcome to a semi-spruced up Wandering Tree! I’ve spent the last couple of days reassessing the blog and making some changes. This entailed a strengthening of the theme of the blog and its focus, which led to a reassessment of … Continue reading
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On the Incarnation
Merry Christmas to all! My wish is that all will find the Hope and the Peace of this day! Here are some reflections on the Incarnation by CS Lewis: from Miracles, by CS Lewis: In the Christian story God descends … Continue reading
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