Category Archives: C.S. Lewis

Teaching Faith to Youth

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Derek Leman

I’ve been doing a short series on Sabbath afternoons with the youth of our congregation talking about faith. I didn’t have any when I was a teenager and was not raised in any sort of religious environment. So I find, … Continue reading →

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PODCAST: Yeshua in Context – Yeshua and Miracles

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Derek Leman

Today a commenter on the Yeshua in Context blog said that belief in the supernatural has no place in the college classroom or serious academic research. He believes Jesus is a myth. He says that religion scholars should not make … Continue reading →

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Miracles (C.S. Lewis), #3

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Derek Leman

I’m slowly eking out a parallel series on C.S. Lewis and Abraham Joshua Heschel. You can find the earlier installments by using Categories on the right sidebar and looking under their names. Here are two contemporaries who epitomize good Christian … Continue reading →

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God in Search of Man, #3

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Derek Leman

This is all part of a parallel series on Heschel’s God in Search of Man and Lewis’s Miracles. If Messianic Judaism is a sort of Christian-Jewish hybrid, why not study two the greatest modern thinkers, one from each? And the … Continue reading →

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Miracles (C.S. Lewis), #2

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Derek Leman

These posts on Lewis’s book about miracles are part of a parallel series I am doing on Lewis and Heschel. See “God in Search of Man, #1” and “Miracles (C.S. Lewis), #1” for more explanation on my rationale. The argument … Continue reading →

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Miracles (C.S. Lewis), #1

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Derek Leman

See yesterdays “God in Search of Man, #1” for an explanation of this series exploring a Jewish and a Christian thinker who have much in common. I am much more familiar with Lewis than Heschel, having a fair collection of … Continue reading →

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A love that never stops…

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Derek Leman

From George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, 1867: Nothing is inexorable but love. Love which will yield to prayer is imperfect and poor. Nor is it then the love that yields, but its alloy . . . For love loves unto purity. … Continue reading →

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Faith Without a Reason? Pt 1

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Derek Leman

A popular Jewish blogger, whose blog I only recently started following, has a recurrent theme. In the midst of commentary on the news of the Jewish world and Israel mixed with some religious reflection and Torah commentary, this blogger enjoys … Continue reading →

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Men Without Chests

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Derek Leman

I’m having a little revival of C.S. Lewis reading. I just reorganized by Lewis bookshelf last night and ordered a few new books (note to my congregational bookkeeper: I paid for these books myself). So, it has been many years … Continue reading →

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