I loved the Narnia books as a child. My basement turned into Narnian headquarters and a roll out map of the land was the center point. As an adult I have taught the books and re-read them as an antidote to discouraging times.
And these are discouraging times.
Like a miracle, comes a gift to us from Disney and Walden Media. Prince Caspian, the...
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John Wesley, who everybody's heard of, had this to say about John Fletcher of Madeley, who is now mostly forgotten: "An obedience discovered itself in Fletcher of Madeley, which I wish I could describe or imitate."
John William Fletcher (1729-1785), or, to use the French name he was given at birth, Jean Guillaume de la Flechere, was famous amo...
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The hymns of Charles Wesley are incredibly good. He wrote thousands of them, in a variety of styles and a vast range of topics. Lord Bernard Manning (1892-1941), a historian of religion, once wrote an appreciation of Wesley's work in words which it would be difficult to improve on. The text of Manning's little book is online at CCEL. Along wit...
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Henri Rossier, a nineteenth century Plymouth Brethren writer, begins his Meditations on the Book of Joshua with an arresting comparison:
The Book of Joshua gives us, in type, the subject of the Epistle to the Ephesians. The journey across the desert had come to an end, and the children of Israel had now to cross the Jordan led by a new guide, ...
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George MacDonald once wrote, "It is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the ...
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The Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University is honored to have Cambridge's own Dr. Michael Ward speaking for us this Monday evening on his new piece of C.S. Lewis scholarship. Through medieval cosmology, Planet Narnia claims to provide the imaginative key to understanding the Chronicles of Narnia. This work is already launching Dr. Ward to wor...
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Bottom Line: I love gaming and the best game of the year, based on reviews is Grand Theft Auto. Since the game has a lot of tough content, it seemed worth thinking about whether it was worth my time and money.
I decide that I could not play and did so publicly in part hoping that gamers could help me see what was good about the game. The result...
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