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...reason, as even a cursory rereading of Mere Christianity attests, is that despite a certain datedness of style and reference, Lewis' brief for Christian belief is superbly organized and easy to follow. He was not a great aphorist, but he had a genius for the deceptively homey metaphor (the book abounds with pennies, trains, mousetraps, pianos) and the extended polemical line that detonates in climaxes such as his rejection of the idea of Jesus as primarily a moral tutor: "You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon...
Many mainline élites dropped Lewis, and his adult works might have gathered dust--were it not that Evangelicalism had just emerged dewy and hungry from the rigid chrysalis of Fundamentalism, eager for anyone, even a high-church Anglican, to popularize basic Christian tenets. Today it is Evangelicals who hold most of the Lewis conferences and write most of the Lewis books. They often present Mere Christianity to prospective converts or joyfully pass copies to those who are born again, along with a Gospel of John. Says Christian author Nancy Guthrie, whose new devotional The One Year Book of Hope...
...soon. He would like to do another musical onstage (he was Moses in last year's short-lived Ten Commandments). He's in the middle of writing three screenplays; one about Mark Twain; one a tragicomedy about divorce; and one about Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, the religion that Kilmer practices...
...tripping. Dan Murphy added the second man-advantage goal in the third frame, a strike from the right side at 14:44. Harvard killed all three Dartmouth power plays, allowing just four shots while shorthanded. ALONG THE BOARDS Coskren, a freshman, scored his first collegiate goal, and classmates Jack Christian and Fraser tallied assists in their first game in a Harvard uniform...Senior goaltender John Daigneau won his first game since January 2004, recording 20 saves on the night...Harvard avenged a 2-1, Feb. 2005 loss to Dartmouth that ruined the Crimson’s chances...
...watched Big Green forward Eric Przepiorka bounce the puck past him 59 seconds into the first period. “That first goal didn’t help.” But Du tied it up at 16:39 when he drove the net and deflected a Jack Christian shot past Dartmouth goalie Sean Samuel, and the first-intermission buzzer sounded on a 1-1 tie. The Crimson was still in it. Of course, the Big Green struck just 32 seconds into that frame with another redirection, but blueliner Dylan Reese leveled the score five seconds into a Crimson power...