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Read the Psalms monthly in 2024

For your consideration during New Year's Resolution Season: A little over a year ago, I decided I needed to do a better job of feeding my mind and spirit. I notice that my bedtime habit of listening to old British radio comedies (particularly Hancock's Half Hour) to help me drift...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 30, 2023 1:04 AM

Blogging and the search for significance apart from God

From the official C. S. Lewis Facebook page: What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could 'be like gods'--could set up on their own as if they had created themselves...invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 24, 2013 4:29 PM

Radio Theater's <em>Chronicles of Narnia</em>

Over Christmas and New Year's weekend, BBC Radio 7 broadcast all seven of the Focus on the Family Radio Theater adaptations of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. I've been listening to them in publication order -- I've just finished The Silver Chair. Paul Scofield, who won an Oscar...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 22, 2011 11:26 AM