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Only One on the Market (Beyond Personality)

May 18, 2012

There are a good many people who say, ‘I believe in God, but not a personal God.’ They feel that the mysterious something which is behind all other things must be more than a person. Now the Christians quite agree. But the Christians are the only people who offer any idea of what a being that is beyond personality could be like. All the other people, though they say that God is beyond personality, really think of Him as something impersonal: that is, as something less than personal. If you are looking for something super-personal, something more than a person, then it isn’t a question of choosing between the Christian idea and the other ideas. The Christian idea is the only one on the market.- C.S. Lewis, in Beyond Personality

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Uganda: A Resting Point

May 16, 2012

Several of my friends have visited Uganda. They always describe it in terms of beauty: both in the country and in the population. I have only spent 18 hours in Uganda.

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Seven Universal Truths I Learned from Watching 725 Star Trek Episodes (and 11 Movies)

May 14, 2012

Star Trek: my final frontier. This ends the voyage of the starship Small. His three year mission: to watch every single Star Trek episode, of every single Star Trek series, in order of the Star Trek world’s timeline, boldly going where many a nerd has gone before (but in synchronistic story order).

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Jungles and Deserts (The Abolition of Man)

May 11, 2012

C.S. Lewis was a critic of what he called faulty educational models. As a superb educator, he was appalled with modern techniques that fostered drab repetition, dangerous doctrines (such as moral subjectivity and erroneous literary criticism), and dead methods. He sometimes claimed that he was witnessing the second death of ancient learning.

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Turks and Caicos: Relaxation

May 9, 2012

The Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies are known as a tourist paradise. The first European to spot the islands was none other than Ponce De Leon. He may have unknowingly missed the fountain of youth. I’ve visited the Turks and Caicos while on a couple of cruises.

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It’s William Shatner’s World and We Just Live In It

May 7, 2012

We don’t often get to see our heroes in a live forum, especially if they are starship captains. So when I had the chance to see William Shatner, I bought my ticket with due haste. I first saw Shatner on TV in 1974. I was six. My dad and I watched the Star Trek episode “Devil in the Dark”. Captain Kirk, the icon of futuristic manliness, chased an alien called a Horta. The Horta, which looked like a giant vomited piece of Italian sausage and cheese pizza, tunneled through caves and killed planetary miners with its super acid farts. Watching

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Holy Wanderings (Perelandra)

May 4, 2012

Long walks delighted C.S. Lewis as much as anything else in life. His favorite holidays consisted of gathering a few friends to meander through villages and the English countryside for hours at a time. He needed no particular path.  He would simply pick a general direction and take some time to ramble. Lewis found walks to be spiritually therapeutic. When he wrote about them, he often described these walks as moments of holiness.

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