Lewis.” So I went to the library and checked out the first Lewis book that fell into my hands: An Experiment in Criticism! I’ve never met anyone else for whom that was his first Lewis book. My senior year in high school one of my friends said, “If you like Tolkien you should check out his friend C. Lewis book? How did you come to read it, and what impact did it have on you at the time? Lewis’s house, The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford Tolkien on the Human Condition (Nashville: Broadman, 2006) and Reflections from Plato’s Cave: Essays in Evangelical Philosophy (Lynchburg: Lantern Hollow Press, 2012). Discerning readers can find Lewis in all of my books, but he shows up most explicitly in Mere Humanity: G. If it weren’t for Lewis, I doubt I would be a Christian today at all-so you can blame him for all of the above! He showed me that a Christian mind was possible, and no one has done more to form mine. I am a minister of the Gospel and missionary who makes his living by teaching English and Philosophy at a small Christian college. Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, and how C. So I thought I might as well ask myself too and see what I had to say. The following are questions I came up with to ask a number of Lewis scholars when I was the editor of The Lamp-Post: The Journal of the Southern California C. I’ve interviewed myself in these pages before.
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