Summer would not have been summer without a good deal of reading (as well as cricket, which you must admit hasn’t been bad this season).
I have recently been enjoying a good deal of C. S. Lewis, devouring the third part of his Space Trilogy, entitled That Hideous Strength, as well as his three lectures published as The Abolition of Man. Both works, written near the end of the Second World War, depict a world threatened by dystopian totalitarianism. I was drawn to these works after reading John Lennox’s outstanding 2084 and the AI Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future – a book I have strongly urged our congregation to read, in which Lewis is cited very frequently.
Okay... It is only fair to add that Lewis could hardly be described as an "evangelical" – and I’m not sure he would fit all that comfortably into any 21st century Reformed and confessional church setting – but we believe in "one holy catholic church," and Lewis has been a very great gift to that one church. The more I read him, the more I appreciate how prescient and insightful he was.
Words are becoming cheapened and debased
“When words are many,” wrote Solomon – while his wisdom remained with him – “transgression is not lacking, but whoever …