CS Lewis, 50 Years Ago

Hard to believe it was 50 years ago that JFK was assassinated.  One of my earliest childhood memories was watching the flag draped coffin with Kennedy's body slowly passing down the streets on our old black and white TV with my parents.   I had just turned four.

Unknown to me at that time was the life and death, the same day, of C.S. Lewis who probably influenced me more than any other person, save Christ Himself.   I started reading Lewis in high school, first Mere Christianity, then The Screwtape Letters an later the Narnia books and the space trilogy.   Lewis was a brilliant mind, but many have had a brilliant mind.  No one wrote like Lewis, as Sherwood Wirt once said, Lewis had the ability to "make righteousness readable".   His clever turns of phrases, proper British prose and logical argumentation combined to make thinking enjoyable.

Three articles caught my attention today.