Clive Lewis - A Year with C. S. Lewis - 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works

20 A Body—Muscular, Vital, and Diverse

21 Should the Church Take the Lead?

22 A Christian Society

23 The Longest Way Round

24 For No Other Purpose

25 A Gentle Welcome

26 Creating Hatred in Church

27 A Suitable Church

28 Hints of Our Future

29 A Curious Consolation

30 Work Offered to God

31 Avoid Clarity

June

1 Untold Millions

2 The Apostolic Witness

3 What the Apostles Meant

4 The Beginning of the New Creation

5 Like a Ghost, Yet Not

6 A Much Stranger Story Than Expected

7 A Whole New Nature

8 No Ordinary People

9 What Did They See and What Did They Think They Saw?

10 Witness Reports

11 Reliable Eyewitnesses?

12 An Idea Why Heaven Is Always “Up”

13 Close Up and Small

14 Fitting into the Pattern

15 How to Think About the Miracles of Jesus

16 Be Careful What You Think You Want

17 Threshold of Belief

18 What the World Is Really Like

19 Discerning What’s Real

20 Everythingism

21 Wild Rumours

22 God in Our Prayers

23 Very Hard, Yet Very Easy

24 The Most Difficult Is the Easiest

25 Let’s Pretend

26 Pretending a Little Less

27 Pretence Becomes Reality

28 As We Become Like Christ

29 Rats in the Cellar

30 And More Rats Yet

July

1 Lead Them by the Nose

2 “I’m as Good as You Are”

3 The Undemocratic Incantation

4 The Tyranny of Democracy

5 The Democratic Imperative

6 Medicine, Not Food

7 New Perspective

8 Coming in Out of the Wind

9 The Full Treatment

10 “I Will Make You Perfect”

11 All or Nothing

12 Faux Humility

13 Simply a Phase

14 Cigars in Heaven

15 Tenderly, Tenderly

16 A Sword in God’s Hand

17 Two Sides of the Truth

18 Transformed

19 The Real Self

20 Defining Our Terms

21 Reflection of the Divine Life

22 Judging by Results

23 Out of Action

24 A Warning or an Encouragement?

25 Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

26 Love the Sinner …

27 The Real Test

28 Love Your Enemy

29 The Thing Called Selves

30 This Terrible Duty

31 Start Small

August

1 Grieving, and Thinking About Grieving

2 A Jab of Red-Hot Memory

3 Alone into the Alone

4 Lament

5 Would I Wish Her Back?

6 Cherishing Our Unhappiness

7 Holy Intentions

8 Hell’s Parody

9 One Flesh

10 I Promise You

11 Falling in Love

12 Being in Love

13 Romance Novels

14 Love Then Marriage—or Marriage Then Love?

15 That Love May Find a Foothold

16 The Least Bad of All Sins

17 Bent Appetites

18 One Reason We Don’t Desire Chastity

19 Another Reason We Don’t Desire Chastity

20 A Final Reason We Don’t Desire Chastity

21 Gluttony of Delicacy

22 Profile of a Glutton: The Demure Little Smile

23 Profile of a Glutton: “All I Want …”

24 In the Know

25 Deadly Annoyances

26 Under the Same Roof

27 “All I Said …”

28 I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins

29 Forgiving Versus Excusing

30 Two Remedies for Excuses

31 As We Forgive Others

September

1 No Exceptions

2 Past, Present, and Future

3 Life on the Edge of a Precipice

4 The Imaginary Claims of War and Religion

5 The Claims of War: Render unto Caesar

6 The Claims of Religion: Do All to the Glory of God

7 Learning as Vocation

8 Learning as a Necessary Weapon

9 What Is Charity?

10 The Rule of Love

11 Compound Interest

12 No Manufactured Feelings

13 On Giving

14 Is It Really Kindness?

15 Wise as Serpents

16 Not Just About Falling Down

17 When Worlds Collide

18 Faith in Training

19 Real Temptation

20 Not Really So Bad

21 Lessons from Practising Christian Virtues

22 Like the Spokes of a Wheel

23 Leaving It to God

24 A First Faint Gleam of Heaven

25 Faith or Works

26 God in Tandem

27 Follow Thou Me

28 Fantasy Virtues

29 Where Is God?

30 At Peace

October

1 Blurred Vision

2 Mustn’t Grumble

3 The Great Iconoclast

4 A Chuckle in the Darkness

5 Reconciling Human Suffering with a God Who Loves

6 The Source of Pain

7 Surrender

8 The Rebellious Self

9 God’s Megaphone

10 Clinging to Our Own Lives

11 Tender Words

12 Surrender in Obedience

13 Collaborators in Creation

14 Don’t Stone the Messenger

15 One Man’s Tale of Tribulation

16 The Products of Suffering

17 To Produce the Complex Good

18 Some Pleasant Inns

19 To Stop One Tooth from Aching

20 Heaven Will Work Backwards

21 Present at the Creation of the World

22 A Defence Against the Enemy of Excitement

23 A Defence Against the Enemy of Frustration

24 A Defence Against the Enemy of Fear

25 Death Is Real

26 How God Can Answer Prayer

27 Time Reconsidered

28 Our Contribution to the Cosmic Shape

29 Not a Film Unrolling

30 Our Keenest Pleasure

31 On Enemy Ground

November

1 Real Pleasure

2 Raw Material

3 Scientific Theories

4 Scientific Observation

5 Science or Magic?

6 From Dream to Waking

7 Turn the Other Cheek?

8 What “Turn the Other Cheek” Doesn’t Mean

9 Virtue’s Testing Point

10 How to Create a Coward

11 A Logical Conclusion to Pacifist Politics

12 Weighing the Costs

13 Weighing Hell’s Miseries

14 Of Heaven and Earth

15 No Chocolates?

16 A Gradual Change

17 The Sweet, Secret Desire

18 Well Done

19 Perfect Humility

20 The Promise of Glory

21 Overheard Messages

22 To Be at Last Summoned Inside

23 Is It Wrong to Want Heaven?

24 Aim at Heaven

25 Books for Grown-Ups

26 Comparing Cats and Dogs

27 Sooner or Later They Fell

28 The Place of Finality and Darkness

29 Shall Hell Veto Heaven?

30 Must Pity Die?

December

1 Hell’s Doors

2 Left Alone

3 A Detestable Doctrine

4 You Be the Judge

5 Viewing the Remains

6 Either-Or

7 Choose Now, Choose Well