May 25: Mere Christianity: Book III, Chapters 4-8
On Sunday, May 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m., we'll continue our discussion of Mere Christianity with Book III, "Christian Behaviour," Chapters 4-8. Here are representative passages from these chapters:
BOOK III: Chapter 4, paragraph 1:
I now want to begin considering what the Christian idea of a good man is—the Christian specification for the human machine.
BOOK III: Chapter 5, paragraph 4:
You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let everyone see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?
BOOK III: Chapter 6, paragraph 11:
What is more (and I can hardly find words to tell you how important I think this), it is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to the sober interest, who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some quite different direction.
BOOK III: Chapter 7, paragraph 2:
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.
BOOK III: Chapter 8, paragraph 2:
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
"What did Tolkien REALLY think of Narnia?" is a no-nonsense, setting-the-record-straight, talk given by Holly Ordway at the 2024 Undiscovered C. S. Lewis conference, for which she received a standing ovation. Holly is the author of Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography.
May Morning 2025 can be viewed on YouTube. It's a 13-minute video posted by The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. May Morning is a centuries old tradition celebrated annually on May 1. From this year's video, here's a part of the prayer spoken from 4:00-4:24 — "As cities and universities in unity and concord, we celebrate before Thee today the birth of an earthly morning we pray, Thee, use the beauty of this creation to knit our hearts to the things that endure for eternity that we may rejoice at the dawning of the endless day of the Kingdom of Thy Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ." The ceremony concludes a few minutes later with the ringing of the bells.
New Narnia hardcover editions with covers designed by artist Owen Richardson have been announced by HarperCollins.
"C. S. Lewis and the Myth That Became Fact" runs through Feb. 14, 2026, at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D. C. A news article says that the exhibit includes a letter by Lewis to Mr. Rooke dated Dec. 8, 1937.
Logos Theatre presents The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Branson, Missouri, June through August 2025.
Central Texas C. S. Lewis is a reading group that meets in Austin, Texas.
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