Archive: C.S. Lewis category
1. I went to the BYU Men's and Women's Chorus Concert on Friday, primarily because the last three songs that the Women's Chorus sang were from Wicked ("Popular," "For Good," and "Defying Gravity"). I got goosebumps. I love musicals! :)
2. When singing in church meetings, I've noticed how ...
Ran across this nugget in C.S. Lewis's review of Lord of the Rings:
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by 'the veil of familiarity'. The child enjoys his cold meat (otherwise ...
A couple of weeks ago Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, hinted at something very exciting:
Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license?...
The other day a friend of mine e-mailed me a fictional newspaper story she'd written, about communication with Mars. As I read it, excitement blistered through my brain, and in its wake I had a small epiphany. I really, really, really like imaginative fiction. Here's my working ...
Heaven's important, you know. If we do what's right, that's where we'll go, and I think it's natural to be curious as to what it'll be like. C.S. Lewis has some insights:
Exhibit A: In The Great Divorce, a group of people get on a bus, leave hell, and ...
As I said yesterday, I gave the closing prayer in the forum. Here's the followup story: I arrived at the Marriott Center half an hour early, but nobody was on the stand yet so I just sat in the bleachers (since being the first person on the stand ...
My bookshelves have been overflowing lately -- books stacked horizontally across the tops of other books, books on top of the shelves, books pretty much everywhere except on the floor. (I have a perennial fear of flooding. ;)) This past week or so, however, my family has been ...
FYI, yesterday I created a Google Group for the BYU C.S. Lewis Society:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/cslsociety
It's for discussion of any and all things related to C.S. Lewis, basically. And, despite the name, it's open to anyone who wants to talk about Lewis. So feel free to join if you'd like, ...
This is in response to Joni's post. When an obsessive blogger's comment gets rather long, he instinctively recognizes the opportunity for a free blog post. ;) The "as Liz says" parts refer to Liz's comment.
Methinks that the offense comes from mistaking the portrayal of evil to ...
A continuance of my responses to the talks in general conference...
Boyd K. Packer. I'm a big fan of talks on high standards, if you haven't noticed. :) The world is too much with us, so we need these higher standards to keep us safe from being deceived and ...
