Mere C.S. Lewis

Ever since I became a Christian I have thought that the best, perhaps the only, service I could do for my unbelieving neighbours was to expl...

God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creatu...

One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the unive...

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not cal...

People who all believe in God can be divided according to the sort of God they believe in. There are two very different ideas on this subjec...

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do h...

One last word. I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that Faith seems...

One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience’s mind the question of Truth. They always think you are recommending Christiani...

Something will usually have to be said about the historicity of the Gospels. You who are trained theologians will be able do this in ways...

Our great danger at present is lest the Church should continue to practise a merely missionary technique in what has become a missionary sit...

While we are on the subject of science, let me digress or a moment. I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular b...

From this there follows a corollary about the Apologist’s private reading. There are two questions he will naturally ask himself. (1) Have I...

This scrupulous care to preserve the Christian message as something distinct from one’s own ideas, has one very good effect upon the apologi...

We are to defend Christianity itself -- the faith preached by the Apostles, attested by the Martyrs, embodied in the Creeds, expounded by t...

Ever since I became a Christian I have thought that the best, perhaps the only, service I could do for my unbelieving neighbours was to expl...