Entries from Come Sit a While that draw on the words of C.S. Lewis.
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was born in Belfast, Ireland, the son of a lawyer and a mathematician’s daughter. He lost his mother to cancer when he was nine — a wound he carried quietly for decades. He fought in the trenches of World War I, was wounded at the Battle of Arras, and went on to become one of the most celebrated literary scholars and Christian thinkers of the twentieth century, holding chairs at both Oxford and Cambridge. Lewis was a lifelong atheist who, after years of resistance and rigorous intellectual wrestling, converted to Christianity in his early thirties. He went on to write Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Problem of Pain. He married Joy Davidman late in life — in his late fifties — and found in her a love he had never expected. When she died of cancer just four years later, he wrote A Grief Observed, so raw and unguarded was his sorrow. He was not a man who had life handed to him easily. He was a man who kept beginning again.
Entries featuring C.S. Lewis
- — The Lamp Within — (2026-01-01)
- The Same Person in Every Room (2026-02-06)
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