Reviews

Reading The Morning You Came for Us, though difficult to absorb, may be one way you can begin to understand some of the realities that your Syrian newcomer friends, their families and nation have faced.

“I’d always maintained that a sense of humour can be found in any destination, no matter how bruised, how battered, and that through humour we can find a sense of shared humanity. But Rwanda?”

Much has been written about C.S. Lewis, but far less is known is about his wife. If Christians know anything about Lewis’ marriage, it is that he married late in life, and that his wife died soon after of cancer.

Communication is complicated. It always involves an attempt to mesh at least two ways of thinking that don’t line up.

We talk of Gnosticism as an early Christian heresy; it is better understood as an everyday Christian temptation. Loveless knowledge, implied St. Paul, does nothing but puff you up, and as Christians can hardly help claiming to know something about God, so the mere momentary absence of love threatens to leave us with swelled heads.