It is not possible to be ‘incidentally a Christian.’ The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain...

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one’s life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. ‘Do fish complain of the sea for...

Corruption is never compulsory.

What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.