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Good News for This Year's Graduates
- Culture, Education, Uncategorized
- April 28, 2025
The plot of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is straightforward. The narrator, who strongly resembles Lewis, boards a bus along with some others traveling from Hell to Heaven. Once they’ve arrived at their destination, the quarrelsome passengers disembark, become Ghosts, and find themselves scarcely able to bear the reality of their physical environment—even the unbending
READ MOREThe decline of religion in America is real—that is, depending on how you define “religion.” Weekly church attendance is in decline, as is self-identification with a formal religion, denomination, or belief system. Meanwhile, the rise of the “nones” seems increasingly steady in speed, replacing religious-cultural standards and norms of old with a modern menu of “personal spiritualties” based
READ MORERemember “The Far Side” cartoons? They were at their peak when I was in grade school, plastering calendars and t-shirts with an offbeat humor that left fans clutching their sides with laughter. Given their popularity, there was palpable disappointment when their creator, Gary Larson, put down his pen in 1995. But there’s good news. “The
READ MOREEver since I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I have been enthralled with the brilliance of C.S. Lewis’ books for children. So, I was surprised when I first read John Milton’s Paradise Lost and stumbled across a few lines that were very familiar: His visage drawn he felt to sharp and
READ MOREFor years now, our culture has waged war over the question of what it means to be a man. To that battlefield, some online pundits have brought the heavy artillery of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book, The Abolition of Man: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor
READ MOREIf you’re visibly dejected or upset, those around us will often ask, “Hey, what’s wrong?” and then quickly suggest, “Let’s talk about it.” The strategy of “talking it out” can be very helpful. There are times when we are bothered by something and discussing it with others helps dispel unnecessary darkness and puts things in
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