http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/posts/tags/cs+lewis/page/1/ Meditations on Jesus and our World en Vox Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:34:17 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss cs lewis http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/joy--defined.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/joy--defined.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/joy--defined.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:34:17 -0700 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).... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/joy--defined.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700fae8cd290a000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> surprises joy autobiography cs lewis grief delight pleasure http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/looking-for-god.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/looking-for-god.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/looking-for-god.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:49:56 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700fad695ba670005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700fad695ba670005-50si" alt="Joseph&#39;s temptation" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/looking-for-god.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700fad6969ccf0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> u2 addiction desire bono cs lewis john piper suffering chesterton harvest usa http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/reading-lewis.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/reading-lewis.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/reading-lewis.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:13:42 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700fa96837f440002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700fa96837f440002-50si" alt="Lewis&#39; Spiritual Autobiography" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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.... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/reading-lewis.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700fae8c812a0000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> classical reading autobiography cs lewis milton http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 01 May 2008 09:36:12 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ced878d0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ced878d0002-50si" alt="the frog princess" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398ef1b2c0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> wisdom david story tolkien folklore cs lewis discipline psalm 119 future posts the frog princess http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/more-than-revelation.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/more-than-revelation.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/more-than-revelation.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:40:25 -0800 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/more-than-revelation.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398c354820004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> christmas grace redemption cs lewis incarnation good news revelation missions missional