My HarperOne edition of Lewis’s poetry collection,Poems, was edited by Walter Hooper, briefly personal secretary to the man and literary advisor for his estate. The decisions as to what to include or exclude was no easy task. From Hooper’s preface: “They were in no particular order. It...
Lewis talks quite a bit about suffering and loss. His earlier, more theologically driven The Problem of Pain and the wanderings of A Grief Observed, as he wrestles with the loss of his wife, each explore the gut of the faithful follower of Jesus, as do other works. Everyone suffers, but...
My wife and I hope and plan to make that journey again into the world of C. S. Lewis in the summer of 2009 as we lead a C. S. Lewis Tour of Ireland and England for as many people as wish to join us. To learn more about it you may visit my web sitewww.willvaus.com/c__s...
A lesser known but nonetheless powerful part of C.S. Lewis’ legacy is the impact that he has had on the conversion of countless numbers of people to the Catholic Church. This is indeed an astonishing phenomenon considering that Lewis never became a Catholic himself, unlike many other literary...
Binge watches Netflix with his wife: “Friday Night Lights” “House of Cards” “Stranger Things.” SECRET LIFE At two years old, suffered a cracked skull and concussion when hit in the head by a foul baseball. “This did not deter me from baseball, as I played competitively until I ...
plate with Toscanini's name and the years of his birth and death. The photograph was taken in 1938 by famed NBC photographer, Ray Lee Jackson. Written on the photograph in Toscanini's hand, a personal message, "To Lewis Lane, with cordiality, Arturo Toscanini" and date of "May 12, ...
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Binge watches Netflix with his wife: “Friday Night Lights” “House of Cards” “Stranger Things.” SECRET LIFE At two years old, suffered a cracked skull and concussion when hit in the head by a foul baseball. “This did not deter me from baseball, as I played competitively until I ...
Lewis felt that the children (and adults) of his day had lost what he liked to call (after Rudolph Otto) a sense of the numinous: a sense of awe or dread that mingles terror with beauty and that makes one feel small and insignificant (but not repulsive or suicidal) in the face of ...
Lewis in a novel than in studying him as a “literary artist” or as a “man of ideas.” Lewis’s letters are full of one-liners that you could almost turn into a stand-up comedy routine if you had a mind to. (Though I don’t have a mind to! Lewis’s humor usually bubbled ...