20th Century
The Stott Legacy podcast has LAUNCHED!
Very excited to announce that the first two episodes of our new podcast THE STOTT LEGACY have aired. I meant to do this last week
23rd February 2021
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C S Lewis
abuse
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 8. Circumnavigating Church ‘Inner-Rings’
This one’s been a struggle, strangely. Hence the delay. I keep returning to the fact that Lewis’ original essay is entirely sufficient on the matter.
18th December 2020
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apologetics
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 7. The Inner Ring of Race
C. S. Lewis nailed the phenomenon in a 1944 lecture given at King’s London. He clarifies that he’s not referring to the need for discretion
19th November 2020
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apologetics
Poetry: Imagination’s Wake Up Call – a conversation
Regulars will know that I’ve been doing increasing amounts with the fair friends of the Rabbit Room in Nashville. So today, a couple more bits
14th November 2020
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apologetics
Echoes from Eternity: 20. C. S. Lewis’ poems
Most don’t associate Lewis with his poetry. My understanding is, however, he would have far preferred to be known as a poet than almost anything
20th April 2020
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apologetics
Echoes from Eternity 10. Introducing Ezekiel Bulver by C. S. Lewis
Today’s reading is neither poetry nor fiction but is prose of a different sort. It is one of C. S. Lewis’s great essays, one which
30th March 2020
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apologetics
Q Combinations 7: Lewis, Fujimura and Elemental Love
It was a while back when I encountered this poem from the polymathic Lewis, that master of words and fantasies and reality. It is an
29th September 2015
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apologetics
The Black Dog (10 years on) 8: SOME LITERARY COMPANIONS…
William Nicholson wrote Shadowlands, the play (which became the film) inspired by C.S.Lewis’s extraordinary testimony A Grief Observed. In it, he gave Lewis this lovely
21st August 2015
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C S Lewis
The Black Dog (10 years on) 7: SOME TOP TIPS…
As I wrap this little sequence of ruthless self-exposure up, various omissions and oddities have occurred to me, so the easiest thing is probably to string them together in a
18th August 2015
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All Souls Langham Place
The Black Dog (10 years on) 5: THE INSENSIBILITY OF FAITH…
It’s been very moving to have messages in the last few days about my black dog posts. Thank you! At least it shows that it’s been worth it. As
14th August 2015
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C S Lewis
There but for the grace… pastors escaping the power-trip pitfalls
We could call them the ‘pastor’s power pitfalls.’ There are many. Too many. It’s actually scary how much power a pastor wields – for good… and
29th January 2015
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ARTS
CS Lewis exposes the humbling reality when anyone prays
C. S. Lewis was a great burster of pride’s balloons. His Screwtape Letters are a masterful model in how to do that. But he was
5th June 2013
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