A Child Again
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up. C.S. Lewis, Other Worlds (1975), 25.
Author: Edwin Smith
Annotations — June 18, 2021
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A Sentence That Stretches Into Eternity
The tension (a weak word) between the temporality of sentences and the eternity that would render them and the strivings they portray superfluous is powerfully ...
The Urgent Need of Preaching
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be read...
Learning to See Through the Eyes of our Forebears
Christian classics—such as Athanasius’ treatise On the Incarnation or Augustine’s Confessions—possess the ability to tether us to our collective pas...
Annotations — June 11, 2021
One of the Earliest (and Clearest) Summaries of Early Christian Beliefs I have consistently discovered that, despite the tantalizing conspiracies offered up in ...
What Matters Supremely
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me. I a...
C.S. Lewis’s Biggest Mistake
…was apparently being indifferent about the order in which the Chronicles of Narnia should be read. I was shocked to discover, on the first page of Walter...