Last week, I gave some general thoughts on finding good mentors as an undergraduate. This week, I'll talk a bit about finding mentors who share your beliefs. This is not in any way to minimize the value of mentors who have different views about life. I've learned valuable skills, knowledge, and virtues from mentors who had completely different assumptions about the way the world works. It's often quite helpful to have a mentor who will challenge your deepest beliefs about the world. But, as in most things, it's also … [Read more...] about Finding Mentors Who Share Your Faith
C. S. Lewis
Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed
This post is a patchwork of tattered reflections on a slew of topics ranging from humans behaving like robots to robots behaving like humans, mind-reading technologies, maybe cyborgs and so forth. There is no grand thesis tucked away in a prose that finds low triviality and high seriousness equally endearing. The hope here is that the reader, if any, would walk away feeling enough esprit to want to grab somebody gently and engage in debate until the Holy Spirit returns our souls to the still waters. “Be Still and know … [Read more...] about Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed
Quote: C. S. Lewis on Giving Our Life to God
Hannah Eagleson concludes her Summer Quotation Series. In this last post of the series, we return to the twentieth century with a quotation from C. S. Lewis that brings together many of the themes touched on by the other quotations. . . . it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention; it is ourselves. For each of us the Baptist's words are true: "He must increase and I decrease." He will be infinitely merciful to our repeated … [Read more...] about Quote: C. S. Lewis on Giving Our Life to God
‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_rMtKhPuo&=300 Promotional Video for Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel. In Chapter 7 of Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel (Ignatius Press. 2010), David C. Downing (R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, PA, & C.S. Lewis Scholar who has written several books for InterVarsity Press) provides a captivating, lively and creative envisioning of Inklings conversation. Last night as I was reading and discussing Chapter 7 with one of daughters, I … [Read more...] about ‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
Brief Reflection on “The Great Sin”
Just finished reading C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy with one of my girls. What did she learn? To listen to the Lion, i.e., God Beware of pride How about these as Lenten lessons? In my April 1 reading of The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis (C.S. Lewis, Walter Hooper. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1984), I was reminded of C.S. Lewis' focused thoughts on "The Great Sin" of pride/self-conceit (Mere Christianity. MacMillan, 1975, Book III, Chapter 8). Below's a challenging … [Read more...] about Brief Reflection on “The Great Sin”