All Purls. No Swine.
It is true that few of us can worship the self, naked and unashamed for very long. For one thing, it simply doesn't work. Living for his own pleasure is the least pleasurable thing a man can do: If his neighbours don't kill him in disgust, he will die slowly of boredom and lovelessness--Joy Davidman,… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Self-Worship, Boredom, and Lovelessness
Yes, it's a marvelous conundrum: I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner...I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did… Continue reading On Hatred: What Did CS Lewis Have To Say?
Fifty-eight years ago today (November 22, 1963) Clive Staples Lewis departed this earth, within only a few hours of the man whose death owns this day. (Same same Aldous Huxley.) And yet. When asked some years before that fateful date, what might be Christianity's unique contribution amongst the religions of the world, Lewis had (to… Continue reading Musical Mondays: Amazing Grace