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"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13)

Well, I don't know much about music, but just in case anyone is interested, apparently Chesterton made a "guest appearance" in the music video of "Satellite" by Rickie Lee Jones. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cueOJXcsnHU

(Found through the Chesterteens)
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From The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves. Keep them watching their own minds and trying to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills. When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them, instead, start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves and not notice that this is what they are doing. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never led them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment.

(Letter IV; emphasis mine)

Myth-as-Truth, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Conversion of C.S. Lewis

Please pray for the priest at my church. Something I had long suspected, but didn't know for sure, I just had confirmed over the weekend.

He's a Detroit Lions fan.

That is certainly a *very* heavy cross to bear... :-)

In other news, I forgot to mention that a few weeks ago I acquired 13 of the volumes of the Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. There are quite a few good books of his included among them, but most of those are on the Internet already. However, one of the things I do have now own (something that is not on the Internet) is all of the newspaper articles he wrote for his weekly column for the Illustrated London News from 1905 to 1928. (He actually wrote for the ILN until his death in 1936, but I do not have the articles for the last 8 years). Except for a few brief periods ("two trips abroad in 1920 and 1921 and a long period in late 1914 and early 1915"), he wrote almost every single week.

So now I have every article he wrote for the ILN for 23 years, 52 articles a year (with a few exceptions), articles which averaged about 2,000 words. Needless to say, I have a lot of reading to do. :-)

Later, I'll have to post my book list for April that I posted on

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