Exploring Heaven

Published January, 1946 • Featured August 21, 2023

From the imagination of C.S. Lewis — this snippet from The Great Divorce describes an encounter between a citizen of heaven and one of the ghosts who is conflicted about whether to stay or go.

Book Excerpt from Devotional Classics

Giving All to Christ

Featured September 25, 2020

How much of your life does Christianity involve? C.S. Lewis explores the question in this excerpt from Mere Christianity.

Book Excerpt from The Screwtape Letters

Screwtape on Submission

Published January, 1942 • Featured February 22, 2018

In this excerpt, letter six, Screwtape encourages a counterfeit version of the discipline of submission — resignation “to a dozen different and hypothetical fates.”

Book Excerpt from Mere Christianity

Lose Your Life and You Will Save It

Featured July 23, 2017

Calling us ever deeper into relationship with the Triune God, C.S. Lewis asks us to consider that we will only find our unique, irreplicable selves in Christ, and that the life we lose for his sake will only be the faint imitation of the “real, new” life we find in him.

Book Excerpt from The Screwtape Letters

Future. Tense.

Featured June 26, 2017

“But we want a man hag-ridden by the Future … We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now.” In this piece, we walk the path of the time-full life and consider, with help from Jack Lewis, how gratitude and love can ground us in eternity.

Book Excerpt from Mere Christianity

Coming In Out of the Wind

Published January, 1952 • Featured October 20, 2016

A classic excerpt from C.S. Lewis on the transformational imperative of true discipleship. That which is below the surface — our minds and spirits— must be placed under the renewing influence of the Trinity.

Book Excerpt from The Four Loves

The Four Loves: Charity

Featured June 28, 2016

Whence flows this ability to love — and the very notion of love itself? We invite you into the culmination of C.S. Lewis’s classic treatise on love: The Four Loves. Here is Gift-love, the Divine energy that creates, sanctifies, and sustains all other loves. Enjoy!

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The Perfect Penitent

Featured March 22, 2016

Why did Jesus have to die? On this Wednesday of Holy Week, our guest editor Jon Bailey invites us to consider C.S. Lewis’s masterful navigation of the role of the incarnation in the mystery of the atonement. “We cannot share God’s dying unless God dies; and he cannot die except by being a man.”