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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Desteni TV Presents The Design of Christianity Part 1 Section 1 C. S. Lewis Bible SummaryVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, May 16

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By rss@youtube.com (DesteniProdDemons) Author: DesteniProdDemons Keywords: lewis summary bible ethical values prophecies instruction religious Christian crucial zeitgeist 2000 years countless civilization western God human redemption Jesus Christ Superstar Added: May 16, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Mar 30

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June of 2009

 

Rate Draining words of their real meaning

Original at Pahrump Valley Times external link    Wed, Jun 17

 NV CS Lewis once predicted that the term "Christian" might one day lose all meaning. I would argue that process is already underway. When the term can apply to both George Tiller and Matthew Shepard and to their assassins, to anti-gay figures like Richard ...

Rate What in the world is Christian fiction?

Original at Examiner.com external link    Tue, Jun 16

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From Dead Heat by Joel Rosenberg to The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis, Christian fiction runs the gamut from fantasy to thriller to romance to historical fiction. But, what really defines Christian fiction? Christian publishers keep the definition ...

Rate New Christian fantasy series is reminiscent of JRR Tolkien

Original at Examiner.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

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The books are described as JRR Tolkien meets CS Lewis, and they focus on the adventures of an ancient race of elves and faeries known collectively as the Faeltheon. The first book, The Alliance, is already available. The second book, Run Before the ...

Rate Christian vs. atheist, round 1

Original at Examiner.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

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While there may be differing frameworks of Morality or notions Justice, there is no question that an ultimate, true, objective standard exists among humanity—as CS Lewis thoroughly demonstrated in the opening chapters of “Mere Christianity. ...

Rate Anger and British culture

Original at Beliefnet.com external link    Sun, Jun 7

 NY As we were leaving the pub this evening, the CS Lewis Society was gathering in one of the rooms. I thought later about how so many of us Americans, especially a certain sort of Christian, always wants to come here to find the Britain of Lewis, ...

Rate Built on faith

Original at Austin American-Statesman external link    Sat, Jun 6    28 related articles

 TX While any number of Christian authors begin their works with crises of faith — Augustine, Aquinas, Merton, CS Lewis, Henri Nouwen and Anne Lamott, for instance — rarely does an author go straight for the jugular with a child's abduction and death. ...

Rate How Tim Keller Found Manhattan

Original at ChristianityToday.com external link    Fri, Jun 5

 IL Kathy had become a Christian after reading the Chronicles of Narnia as a girl; the books opened her to a wider world in which the unthinkable was true. (She wrote to CS Lewis, and his replies, among her most precious possessions, are included in CS ...

Rate Undercover at Falwell's Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

Original at Religion Dispatches external link    Thu, Jun 4

 CA He read CS Lewis' apologetic works and Susan Harding's classic study of the Lynchburg scene, The Book of Jerry Falwell. A Christian friend tutored him in some of the jargon. He decided to go undercover; to his new friends at Liberty, Roose said he had ...

May of 2009

 

Rate The poet who brought Christian teaching to life

Original at Catholic Star Herald external link    Fri, May 29

 NJ Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Milton, CS Lewis and countless others cite Dante as influential in their development and writings. He has today ascended to the ranks of the most highly regarded and technically proficient authors in ...

Rate Chesterton for Children: Publisher Announces 'Uncle Chestnut' Book ... - Christian News Wire

Original at christiannewswire.com external link    Thu, May 28

Chesterton for Children: Publisher Announces 'Uncle Chestnut' Book ... Christian News Wire (press release) CS Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, credited Chesterton as a significant influence in his conversion to Christianity. ... and more »

Rate Well, Merry Smutmas

Original at The Free Lance-Star external link    Mon, May 25

anyhow) to its feet with "The Hallelujah Chorus"; PBS' children's programming has included adaptations of CS Lewis' Narnia tales, Christian allegories. ... and more »

Rate Holy longing: A meditation on Christian melancholy

Original at Examiner.com external link    Tue, May 19

I find that this sort of music evokes a deep sense of longing, perhaps akin to the concept of Sennsucht that CS Lewis discusses in his book Surprised by Joy. Literally, the word means “longing” in German, but with a sense of nostalgia, ...

Rate Sir revival instinct

Original at stuff.co.nz external link    Sun, May 17

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 New Zealand Narnia creator and Christian apologist CS Lewis declined his knighthood to avoid possible association with any political issues; not because he had anything against the notion of courtly knights. He certainly didn't. Lewis maintained that by nature ...

Rate Thank God For Star Trek... Literally

Original at io9 external link    Sat, May 16

 CA The signs are everywhere, folks. And I believe that "Star Trek," and similar shows, are some of these signs. There's a reason that a favorite Christian writer, CS Lewis, wrote so much science fiction.

Rate Choosing Tylenol and God

Original at newsweek.washingtonpost.com external link    Fri, May 15

 DC While it is true that I made the final break with Christian Science because I was drawn to a simpler, "mere Christianity," as CS Lewis described it, what initially beckoned me from the faith was Tylenol. As a Christian Scientist, I had been taught that ...

Rate Local religious leaders share opinions on faith and torture

Original at Abilene Reporter external link    Thu, May 14

 TX I agree with CS Lewis' statement that pacifism is both a theological mistake and a practical disaster, and my beliefs on torture are an extension of that theory," Christian said. Christian concedes that recent vernacular has broadened the use of the ...

Rate Denison on the name `Christian'

Original at Dallas Morning external link    Wed, May 13

 TX CS Lewis points out that "gentleman" used to mean a member of the landed gentry; now it is a name on a restroom door. So it is with "Christian." Today the word means whatever you want it to. Most Americans think a "Christian" is a good person who ...

Rate A prayer for unity: Annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast meets with ...

Original at Signal external link    Fri, May 8

 CA Pastore talked about how he went from being an atheist for the first 27 years of his life to reading the works of CS Lewis and becoming a Christian. His talk ran the gamut from personal testimony to political exhortation. A country's rights, he said, ...

Rate Why We Need Earthquakes

Original at MorungExpress external link    Fri, May 1

 India Christian apologists such as CS Lewis have attempted to account for natural disasters by showing how they draw people together, or how they provide moral instruction to the survivors, or how they turn our eyes to God. Ehrman asks, but couldn't God have ...

Rate Genres within Christian fiction, part 1

Original at Examiner.com external link    Fri, May 1

My favorites are by CS Lewis, written decades ago. But this is a growing genre with plenty to choose from. Fantasy – An imaginary world with imaginary creatures. The world can differ from ours slightly or in every way. Often the author establishes a ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Needed: A New Culture

Original at Hot Air external link    Tue, Apr 28

 MD Klavan's words remind me of a quote by CS Lewis who said something along the lines of ‘what we need are not more Christian writers, but good writers who are Christian.' I don't quote that to suggest that only good art can come from believers, ...

Rate Why We Need Earthquakes

Original at ChristianityToday.com external link    Tue, Apr 28

 IL Christian apologists such as CS Lewis have attempted to account for natural disasters by showing how they draw people together, or how they provide moral instruction to the survivors, or how they turn our eyes to God. Ehrman asks, but couldn't God have ...

Rate Surprising book takes a close look at Christian liturgy

Original at Salisbury Post external link    Sun, Apr 26

 NC - Susan Triplett, Susan Triplett This book is occasionally reminiscent of the writings of CS Lewis, whom the author references. It's a book which won't benefit from a quick perusal. It is Christ-centered, Biblically based and written compellingly in the belief that we are in this ...

Rate Two couples say they're protective of the current concept of marriage

Original at Bangor Daily external link    Fri, Apr 24

 ME - Judy Harrison, Judy Harrison I agree with CS Lewis that there is no such thing as a "mere mortal" but that every individual is beloved of God. That means that I (as a Christian) have a duty to care about every person and treat each one as I would want to be treated, just as Jesus ...

Rate Graduation treadmill

Original at World Magazine external link    Fri, Apr 24

 NC One reason some students even at Christian colleges graduate without adequate intellectual defenses is that many faculties join in what CS Lewis calls "the quest for the inner ring" (Ring worms, Nov. 22, 2003). Anne Hendershott's well-written critique ...

Rate Keeping the Faith

Original at eye.columbiaspectator.com external link    Thu, Apr 23

 NY So Sy took an IB introductory philosophy course and started reading some Christian books—by CS Lewis, Charles Colson, and others—that his father had given him. He joined a service project to help impoverished Eastern Europeans. ...

Rate What is an Everyday Miracle?

Original at Examiner.com external link    Mon, Apr 20

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CS Lewis really nails the concept when he talks about charity in Mere Christianity. “Charity means love in the Christian sense. But love in the Christian sense does not mean an emotion. It is a state, not of feelings, but of the will. ...

Rate Brand New Supernatural Suspense for Tweens from Bill Myers - Christian News Wire

Original at earnedmedia.org external link    Mon, Apr 20

Neilsen is also the cover illustrator for various editions of the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis. "Suspense, supernatural happenings and likeable characters are the winning ingredients in Bill Myers' latest tween series." -- Christian Retailing ...

Rate • Master Arts Theatre explores truth, temptation in CS Lewis ... - The Grand Rapids Press

Original at MLive.com external link    Sun, Apr 19

by Sue Merrell | The Grand Rapids Press BYRON TOWNSHIP -- "Down with up" pretty well summarizes the reverse allegory of CS Lewis's Christian satire, "The Screwtape Letters." "Everything is in reverse," said Pris McDonald, who is directing a stage ...

Rate The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Angle

Original at cccangle.com external link    Fri, Apr 17

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Adapted from Joseph Robinette's screenplay, Narnia came to Clearwater Christian College in a delightful depiction of CS Lewis' classic allegory. From Tumnus' umbrella to the White Witch's wand and Aslan's roar, audience members of every age were ...

Rate A British writer returns to the faith

Original at Dallas Morning external link    Thu, Apr 16

 TX Despite being closely identified with such religiously themed works (he also wrote a biography of CS Lewis), Wilson fell away from his own Christian faith as a young man. In this essay for the Web site of The Daily Mail, a British paper, ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Dr. Radaker to offer portrayal: “A Visit from CS Lewis”

Original at Anderson University Ravens external link    Fri, Mar 13

 IN This fall Dr. Kevin Radaker, Professor of English and Department Chair, will begin offering a dramatic portrayal of CS Lewis entitled, “A Visit from CS Lewis.” The program lends insight into the life and writings of one of the most renown Christian ...

Rate Vicky Beeching to Perform, Speak on Lewis at Disney World’s ...

Original at Narnia Fans external link    Sun, Jan 11

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 - Christian artist Vicky Beeching is going to be performing some songs, but mostly, she says, speaking on CS Lewis for ‘Narnia Day.’ Part of their Homeschool ...

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