Category Archives: reading

Crushing on Lewis

I read The Great Divorce this weekend for the 3rd or 4th or 5th time.   Lewis dreams that he dies and takes the bus trip to heaven.  When he gets there, all the people from earth look likes ghosts compared to the people who’ve been in heaven.  Apparently, sanctification, becoming a real person—-that can...

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Bookclub with Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot

At least four people told me about it.   “You HAVE to read this book.  You’ll love it.  It’s about growing up in Appalachia.” So when Ms. Cindy told me that the author Amy Greene was signing books at the fall festival, I felt guilty that I hadn’t read it yet. But I went to...

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The Problem of Pain

from C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain–chapter 6 “The human spirit will not even begin to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are, the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked...

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