Backward Mutters

Category: C.S. Lewis

  • Voyage of the Dawn Treaderness

    In order to encourage the Christian community’s teachers, leaders, and pastors to engage and utilize the upcoming movie based on C.S. Lewis’ Voyage of he Dawn Treader, a group of Christian leaders has created narniafaith.com. There are a number of resources including study guides and sermon outlines. I am dwarvish…

  • Wilson, Wilson, and Jacobs on C. S. Lewis

    Justin Taylor posts and comments on C. S. Lewis here. The embedded video is long, but worth it. Then again, you knew I’d say that. Alan Jacobs, ND Wilson, and Doug Wilson in conversation | Full Edition from Canon Wired on Vimeo.

  • Merry Meeting

    I just learned that Tolkein and Lewis first met on May 11, 1926 my birthday–albeit not 1926. Alan Jacobs in his book on Lewis, The Narnian, writes of Lewis’ first impression of Tolkein in this way, “…the two young dons talked for the first time. In his diary entry…Lewis contrives…

  • Sorrow is Better: Ecclesiastes 7:1-7

    Here’s a summary of the teaching of Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 which I will elaborate on Sunday morning. Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 (NIV) reads, “A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than…

  • The Real Power

    “Haven’t you been told that it’s strictly non-political?” “I’ve been told so many things that I don’t know whether I’m on my head or my heels,” said Mark. “But I don’t see how one’s going to start a newspaper stunt (which is about what this comes to) without being political.…