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C.S. Lewis

Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Other Thoughts
Masterly Inactivity: A Million Letting-Go’s

Never again will I call you mine. -C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces Till We Have Faces (::: spoiler alert :::) is a story of self-deception. Orual, the Queen, has doomed her sister Psyche (also called Istra) through a supposedly loving act. Orual fears Psyche is living with a veiled beast — or perhaps Psyche is being ravaged by an outlaw who has deceived her. No matter. Orual is determined — for love, she believes — to either bring Psyche Continue Reading…
November 11, 2019
Home Education
Reading the Church Fathers in High School (Ninth Grade)

It was my older daughter who first drove me to the Church Fathers. At the ripe age of four, she began interrogating me about essentials of the faith. It felt a bit like torture. Charlotte Mason talks in Home Education about children absorbing essential truths in a somewhat unquestioning manner, but I have been plagued with children who question everything from the existence of God to the nature of the Trinity to the possibility of resurrection, and that when barely out Continue Reading…
July 5, 2017
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
That’s YOUR Opinion: The Loss of Objectivity

I recently started reading Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. (I just added the Oxford comma to the title. Because, hello? I’m pretty sure the same people dispensing with morality are the ones dispensing with the Oxford comma.) I had told myself I was not, not, not going to start another Classical Academic Press book until I finished the one I was already reading on John Milton. But then Ashley went and told me that Awakening Wonder talked a Continue Reading…
April 13, 2016
What is Debunking? Understanding What C.S. Lewis Meant

If you will forgive this very elementary question about debunking. I struggle with some of C.S. Lewis’ writings and one of them is the Abolition of Man. So Brandy, would you be able to explain debunking and its issues? Heather asked this question in the comments of this post, and I started to answer and soon my answer grew into a post and I thought I’d go ahead and publish it as one in case anyone else was wondering. I Continue Reading…
February 22, 2014