C.S. Lewis
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 20, 2026
Calvin vs Arminius: the predestination rock battle Though they never met in real life, what if John Calvin and Jacob Arminius would have gone head…
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Adult fictionWar in the Wasteland
by Douglas Bond 273 pages / 2016 RATING: Gift “Second Lieutenant C.S. Lewis in the trenches of WWI” – if that doesn’t grab you, I…
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AssortedC.S. Lewis on real happiness and real Christianity
So who does not want to be happy? We all do, but wanting something is not the same as finding it. We all strive after…
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AnimatedThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1979)
Animated / Children 1979 / 95 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is the oldest surviving film version of C.S. Lewis’s famous classic. It is absolutely fascinating…
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FamilyThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Family / Drama 2005 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 For those who have not read the C.S. Lewis book of the same name, this takes…
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Apologetics 101The theology of dirty jokes
In Miracles, C.S. Lewis makes the intriguing argument that it takes a theistic worldview to explain the existence of dirty jokes. the Christian knows that we…
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Adult non-fictionOn writing (and writers): a miscellany of advice and opinions
by C.S. Lewis 2022 / 191 pages Not everyone can attend a Christian Writers’ Conference, or take graduate-level writing classes. But if you like to…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Jan 28, 2023
British comic on climate change (7 min) Comedian Konstantin Kisin went viral in mid-January for his common sense counter to climate change hysteria. What we…
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Adult fictionOnce Upon a Wardrobe
by Patti Callahan 2021 / 285 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT The year is 1950, and an eight-year-old George Henry Devonshire has finished a book, just published,…
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DramaC.S. Lewis: the most reluctant convert
Biographical drama 93 minutes / 2021 RATING: 9/10 If you already know Lewis you’re going to love this film; if you don’t, this film will…
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Book ReviewsFinding Narnia: the Story of C. S. Lewis and His Brother
by Caroline McAlister 48 pages / 2019 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give C.S. Lewis wrote, “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good…
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Apologetics 101When Lewis says it brilliantly: 7 key quotes
C.S. Lewis wasn’t always orthodox (as Dr. Bredenhof explains in his article “C.S. Lewis’s Apologetics: a Reformed assessment“) but what he got right, he expressed…
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Apologetics 101C.S. Lewis’s Apologetics: a Reformed assessment
Many Christians admire C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and enjoy his writings. I was introduced to C.S. Lewis through my Grade 4 teacher who read The Lion,…
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Adult non-fictionThe hidden meaning of “The Chronicles of Narnia”
What if there was a secret cipher that unlocked a meaning behind C. S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia? What if Lewis used a concealed template…
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Book excerptsWhen C.S. Lewis was an atheist…
An excerpt from Douglas Bond’s novel War in the Wasteland Editor’s note: This excerpt takes place during a prolonged Germany artillery barrage that has the…
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NewsSaturday Selections – March 21, 2020
How is the moon’s design evidence for creation? (6 minutes) The unique characteristics of our moon – its size and distance from us relative to…
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Adult biographiesThe question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. 2002 / 244 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give While C.S. Lewis was 40 years younger than Sigmund Freud, he was well acquainted with…
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Articles – BooksAfter Lewis and Tolkien
A conversation about Christian Fantasy with Bell Mountain author Lee Duigon It’s hard to believe but C.S. Lewis has been gone from this earth long…
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DramaC.S. Lewis onstage: the most reluctant convert
Biographical drama 76 minutes / 2018 RATING: 7/10 Imagine having the opportunity to go back in time and visit with C.S. Lewis, and not just…
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DocumentaryThe Narnia Code
Documentary 59 minutes/ 2009 RATING: 8/10 The Da Vinci Code and The Bible Code had me close to swearing off anything with the word “code”…
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Adult fictionLord Foulgrin’s and Screwtape’s letters: why you should read this devilish correspondence
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis 1942 / 200 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 2001 / 208 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Normally,…
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NewsReagan’s challenge to his dying atheist father-in-law
Earlier this year a note was discovered in Nancy Reagan’s personal effects – dated August 7, 1982 – written by Ronald Reagan to his father-in-law. What…
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Gender roles“Homemaking is the ultimate career” – C.S. Lewis (sort of)
There are some quotes so good you desperately wish they were real. This one below, often attributed to C.S. Lewis, isn’t authentic. But the point…
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Religion – Roman CatholicC.S. Lewis on the Pope: infallible, fool, or fraud
According to a 2009 Pew Research poll, more than 1 in 5 mainline American Protestants believes in reincarnation. Central to being Christian is relying on…
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PoliticsFirst and Second Things: Power is a wonderful servant but a terrible master
**** Sometimes there seems reason to hope. In Ontario, the Progressive Conservative’s new leader Patrick Brown had a history of pro-life politics, and he once…