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Category: Philip Zaleski

Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during “the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing,” and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

charge, culture, fellowship, legalism, ritual

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

culture, engagement, evangelism

The authors disclose that in less than a century the word “tension” grew from signifying a literal electric charge to a metaphor for emotional stress between two people. Writes Owen Barfield, “The scientists who discovered the forces of electricity actually made it possible for the human beings who came after them to have a slightly different idea, a slightly fuller consciousness of their relationship with one another.

language, technology, word-choice

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

culture, evangelism, language

The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

discipleship, legalism, mystery, perfectionism

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

discipleship, mortality, perspective, pleasure, suffering

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God’s grace.

depravity, discipleship, realism, resilience, suffering

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis’s increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

calling, identity, idolatry, job, materialism, maturation, security, vocation

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

amusement, calling, hobby, job, temperament, vocation

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

authenticity, sincerity, testimony

Charles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that “a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.

expectations, parenthood, selfishness

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

community, graciousness, openness