Coffee Culture Kingdom Vox 2008-07-18T14:37:01Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4141b72246a47/tags/cs+lewis/ Meditations on Jesus and our World Joy--defined tag:vox.com,2008-07-18:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700fae8cd290a000b 2008-07-18T14:34:17Z 2008-07-18T14:37:01Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom In his spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy, Lewis defines Joy with the following passage: The central story of my life...is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy (which has)....

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]]> Looking for God tag:vox.com,2008-07-01:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700fad6969ccf0004 2008-07-01T19:49:56Z 2008-07-01T19:49:56Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Joseph's temptation

Bono's yearning lyric, from one of U2's greatest albums, The Joshua Tree, speaks to the most basic human need to discover satisfaction: "I still haven't found what I'm looking for." We are never told what it is that Bono searches for. But we don...

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]]> Reading Lewis tag:vox.com,2008-07-01:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700fae8c812a0000b 2008-07-01T19:13:42Z 2008-07-01T19:13:42Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lewis' Spiritual Autobiography

Last spring I committed to always reading something of Lewis. I've kept that, more or less, over the past many months. I've completed Miracles and The Problem of Pain. It has been great. I've posted on some of my gleanings elsewhere on this site....

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]]> Morning is Wiser tag:vox.com,2008-04-11:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398ef1b2c0004 2008-05-01T16:36:12Z 2008-05-02T22:51:10Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

the frog princess

I love folklore. Lewis's conversion is spurred, I'm told, by a conversation with Tolkien in which the old mythmaker challenged Lewis's atheism/agnosticism with this idea: "Christianity is the One True Myth." This proverb makes all other myths bor...

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]]> More than Revelation tag:vox.com,2007-12-02:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398c354820004 2007-12-02T04:40:25Z 2007-12-02T04:40:25Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom To welcome December and the Advent Season, a meditation on the Incarnation seems apt. This one is provided for us by C. S. Lewis, who, musing on the nature of God says... All three persons of the Trinity are declared ‘incomprehensible.’ God is pro...

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