If I could only read one book series for the rest of my life, it would be a close tie between J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the seven books that make up C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. Fortunately, I haven’t had to choose, and I go back to both series quite frequently.…

The opening prayer of our funeral liturgy includes these words: “O Lord, You are always more ready to hear us than we are to pray; and You know our needs before we ask, and our ignorance in asking.” As the years have gone by, I have found these words an ever greater source of comfort in…

Treasured Friends, One thought I have been pondering this Easter season is that ours is not the first age to have found the resurrection of Jesus Christ a challenge to our assumptions.  C.S. Lewis wrote about the danger of “chronological snobbery,” that proud assumption that every generation is necessarily smarter and better than the ones…