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  • C.S. Lewis on the Christmas “Racket”

    C.S. Lewis on the Christmas “Racket”0

    Last month, Gallup rolled out its annual poll regarding how much Americans intend to spend on Christmas gifts. Surprisingly, average spending on gifts was expected to jump $100 from last year’s amount, for a grand total of $830 per person. Such a finding oddly underscores what C.S. Lewis once labeled as “the third thing called

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  • C.S. Lewis on the 4 Major Differences between the Present and the Recent Past

    C.S. Lewis on the 4 Major Differences between the Present and the Recent Past0

    • September 18, 2015

    You may have read C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, and perhaps you’ve even read some of his nonfiction works such as Mere Christianity or The Abolition of Man.   But chances are you haven’t come across Lewis’ “De Descriptione Temporum” (“On the Description of Ages”) – the first lecture he gave after receiving the

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  • C.S. Lewis on How to Be Yourself

    C.S. Lewis on How to Be Yourself1

    When faced with a challenge, most of us have received advice to “just be yourself.” Those offering advice have good intentions. Yet, we might think, “I’m anxious, frightened, and insecure. I don’t want to be myself.” C.S. Lewis would agree that the self-concept we have created is unreliable. Fortunately, the self we have created is

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  • C.S. Lewis on How the Ego Thwarts Prayer

    C.S. Lewis on How the Ego Thwarts Prayer0

    Do you ever pray? Pew Research recently posed that question to Americans and found that if the U.S. was a village composed of 100 people, just a little more than half would pray daily. Twenty-one percent would pray weekly or monthy, while 23 percent rarely would. I found this scenario interesting, particularly when viewed in

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  • C.S. Lewis on Government, Economics, and Freedom

    C.S. Lewis on Government, Economics, and Freedom0

    The beloved novelist and Christian thinker C. S. Lewis was born on Nov. 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. In honor of his 119th birthday, here are six quotes from Lewis on government, economics, and freedom: On democratic government: “I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are

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  • C.S. Lewis on Fapping

    C.S. Lewis on Fapping0

    First Things recently reposted an article called “Escaping the Prison of the Self” that includes some insights from C.S. Lewis on the topic of masturbation. What’s interesting is that the excerpt includes no reference to the Bible or religion, but rather focuses on the actual psychology of the act. According to Wesley Hill, the excerpt

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