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 christianreader (a community you all need to join. :-))