The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – Philip Pullman

I guess this is an interesting choice of reading material right after C.S. Lewis, especially since Pullman wrote His Dark Materials as a direct rebuttal to The Chronicles of Narnia, which he considered to be religious propaganda. I heard about this book years ago from Chris and recently bought it on a whim. Basically, Pullman,  a well-known … Continue reading »

Surprised By Joy – C.S. Lewis

Ah, Clive Staples. Why must you be so well-read, eloquent and infuriatingly reasonable? Seriously, this dude is a reading machine. I adore him, but how can any regular human being keep up?!? In his teenage years he’s reading Homer and Virgil, William Morris, Keats, and plenty of others I’ve never heard of. For ‘light reading’ … Continue reading »