To my surprise and indeed delight, I’ve been reacquainted with the writings of C. S. Lewis. Thanks are due to a series of articles by my favourite Appalachian philosopher, W. D. James. Previously my last encounter with Lewis had been back in around 1960. At the time I was in the last throes of my once passionate relationship with the Church and Christianity. I found myself reading Lewis’s ‘Mere Christianity’, perhaps an unfortunate title, if I was to be returned to the fold. He failed to prevent my Fall from grace and I embraced an irreconcilable atheism or radical humanism.

I remain so inclined but in recent years disturbed deeply by the growing post and anti-humanist outlook of a technocratic elite, who desire to be Gods, I converse with a plurality of dissenting voices, many religious in timbre. With a bit of luck and effort I hope to explore some of my response to the following pieces on Lewis’s philosophy. particularly the notion of Tao and Natural Law to be found therein.

I recommend highly your engagement with the following links.

https://wdjames.substack.com/p/the-order-of-the-soul

https://wdjames.substack.com/p/the-assault-on-the-heart

https://wdjames.substack.com/p/written-on-the-heart

https://wdjames.substack.com/p/post-humanism-and-the-regime-of-the

https://wdjames.substack.com/p/renewed-humanism

On a lighter note, Lewis, who was a famous writer of children’s books, such as The Chronicles of Narnia. offers some advice on writing.