books

Conflicted But Redeemed: James Como’s Life of C.S Lewis ~ The Imaginative Conservative

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James Como’s “C.S Lewis: A Very Short Introduction” is delightful and is the single finest biographical survey yet written on the Oxford don. In a little more than one hundred pages, you’ll happily come to know the complexities of the most famous convert to Christianity in the twentieth century… (essay by Bradley J. Birzer)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/03/james-como-introduction-cs-lewis-bradley-birzer.html

Banning Books and Burning Heretics ~ The Imaginative Conservative

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Advocates of the liberal arts include “heretical” books in the great conversation, whereas political liberals seek to silence them as dangerous. As we have seen in Nazi Germany and in communist countries, the banning of “heretical” books ends with the burning of “heretics”… (essay by Joseph Pearce)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/01/banning-books-burning-heretics-joseph-pearce.html

Our system of higher learning has taken the low road of political correctness. Those of us familiar with history know where such thoughts and actions have taken us in the past, down a dark road.