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What Do We Really Want?

Many people think of heaven as a place where your desires are fulfilled, where you never lack for anything, and where this state continues forever. It … [Read more...]

C.S. Lewis and Longing as the Key to Perceiving Heaven

Have you ever heard music so beautiful that it made you weep? Have you ever seen a painting that made you long to be part of it? Have you ever felt a … [Read more...]

I Explain What Heaven Is Like

I have to confess, I have never heard a sermon or talk on heaven that actually made me want to go there. I take that back, some sermons make me want … [Read more...]

The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

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The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters takes the point of view of a demon serving his master, Satan, whose job is to tempt a feckless Christian. He writes up periodic … [Read more...]

What C.S. Lewis and Whitaker Chambers Left Out of Their Memoirs

Surprised by Joy and Witness are two of the most literate memoirs you are likely to read. C.S. Lewis and Whitaker Chambers were introspective men with … [Read more...]

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What is a Poor Potsherd?

A potsherd, of course, is a piece of broken pottery and is used as a simile in the Bible.
It is also found in this hopeful poem by G. M. Hopkins.
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Link to That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection

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