A young man, bored with his life and searching for excitement, takes a road trip. He gets much more excitement, however, than he had bargained for, when his new girlfriend accidentally turns him into a donkey by smearing the wrong...
Elaina Pott and Danny Hakim of The New York Times explore the rise of Josh Hawley, the first senator to announce he would oppose the 2020 election certification. Here is a taste: Mr. Hawley sharpened his thinking in conversations with...
Annie Thorn is a junior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as...
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Court evangelical Tony Perkins joins several other evangelical Trump supporters to talk about the 2020 election: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEOG1basWI&w=560&h=315] A few quick comments: 15:58ff: Perkins says that Christians “have a responsibility” to vote along “biblical...
It’s hard to know where to start writing about what we all just witnessed earlier this evening. Donald Trump was scheduled to speak in the Rose Garden at 6:30pm. Shortly before his speech, Attorney General Bill Barr came out to...
Here is conservative writer David French on Al Mohler’s recent decision to support Donald Trump: Look, I know that for now I’ve lost the character argument. It’s well-established that a great number of white Evangelicals didn’t truly believe the words...
Interesting thoughts from one of the 20th-century’s great intellectuals: Between different ages there is no impartial judge on earth, for no one stands outside the historical process; and, of course, no one is so completely enslaved to it as those...
From Relevant magazine: Evangelist Franklin Graham has made some incendiary comments about cities in California. Graham was speaking on a radio show when he was asked about the evangelical “fight to win back California,” as The New York Times called it. Though Graham told host Todd...
Over at Mere Orthodoxy, John Shelton invokes a well-known C.S. Lewis character to describe the life and work of Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas. A taste: Every age needs its Puddleglum. For without Puddleglums, we cannot escape the web of lies...
Let him begin by treating the Patriotism of the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on...
My Messiah College colleague Crystal Downing will be leaving us next year. She and her husband, C.S. Lewis scholar David Downing, are headed to Wheaton College. This is a huge loss for Messiah, but I can’t think of a better...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has replaced Sean Spicer as Donald Trump’s Press Secretary. Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, is an evangelical Christian. Most American evangelicals are fond of C.S. Lewis.  Perhaps Sanders has read “The...
Over at his thoughtful blog Faith and History, Tracy McKenzie of Wheaton College offers some insight into the nature of historical thinking from the writings of C.S. Lewis. Here is a taste of his post: It’s been a while since...
Over at The Gospel Coalition, Justin Taylor interviews George Marsden about his new book C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2016).  Marsden’s book is part of Princeton’s “Lives of Great Religious Books” series. Here is a taste of the...
Ryan Harper, a graduate student in religion at Princeton, thinks evangelicals are too enamored with C.S. Lewis. Here is a taste of his piece in the Huffington Post: It is no wonder that Lewis is the Alpha and Omega of […]
I am no Sarah Palin fan. If she were elected the next president of the United States I think it would be fair to interpret it as a crisis in our democracy. Of course Palin has been a favorite target...
I just finished a thoughtful article by Matthew Dickerson published in Flourish magazine. From what I can tell from its website, Flourish is a relatively new venture dedicated to creation care and “equipping churches to better love God by reviving...
Julie Clawson became familiar with C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia at age three and continued her love of the series as a member of the “Wheaton Children’s Literary Interpretation Society,” a Junto-like group formed during her days at Wheaton […]
I am sure I will see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the recent movie made adaption of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series. I have read the seven-book series to my kids multiple times and, despite depressing reviews like...
Dan Reid has a short post at the InterVarsity Press blog about evangelicals’ obsession with finding “the next C.S. Lewis.” (HT). Is it Tim Keller? Is it N.T. Wright? Was it the late Stanley Grenz? Reid writes: It puzzles me […]
