Month: April 2025

Good Friday 2025

On this day, I will be speaking at a Good Friday service at my church. Here is what I will say. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. In Psalm 31, David wrote, “In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. … Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord,… Read more »

An Anniversary

This week marks the one-year anniversary for going to the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College to share about our book, Many Times & Many Places: C. S Lewis & the Value of History. We are grateful for the invitation we received from David and Crystal Downing, who were then the co-directors of the Center. Not only did we have the privilege of sharing with an audience in the Bakke Auditorium, but we also went to the Downings’ home… Read more »

History in C. S. Lewis’s Personal Library

While researching my latest C. S. Lewis book, Many Times & Many Places: C. S. Lewis & the Value of History, I had the opportunity to take advantage of the Wade Center’s collection of books that Lewis himself owned and read. So, in the process of working on the book that was published in 2023, I also realized that the research I was doing for it would make for a good journal article. I’m more than pleased that the Wade… Read more »