Regular readers will know that I tend to send out my articles on a Friday or Saturday.
This week, in lieu of a regular post later in the week (having lost much of a work day yesterday being ill on the sofa with a stomach bug kindly given to me by my wife and children, I won’t have time to write a fresh post this week), I thought I would share two other bits of work I’ve produced elsewhere that became available online today.
“Lewis the Prophet” in The Critic
Today is sixty years to the day since C.S. Lewis went home to Aslan’s country. Again, regular readers will have noticed that I draw on Lewis regularly as a source of wisdom when considering our cultural ructions, especially The Abolition of Man and the Ransom trilogy.
I was therefore thrilled this month to have a piece published in the November print edition of The Critic, a wonderfully contrarian UK outlet which has been going strong for four years now. My argument is that Lewis deserves to be remembered as a seer and a sage of modernity, not simply as a children’s author and apologist. I was very pleased with how the piece turned out, and imagine it will be of interest to my readers. As of today, the article is freely available online.
A little preview:
At the close of the Second World War, Lewis was one of a number of Christian intellectuals (alongside Jacques Maritain, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, and T.S. Eliot) who had begun to consider what world the Allied powers would now make for themselves. Lewis saw a future in which the rejection of transcendent values would allow a technologised elite to re-make nature as they saw fit, ultimately overthrowing human nature itself — a process made possible through the ideological capture of education.
How British Evangelicalism Got Here
Elsewhere, it was a pleasure to be invited onto the “About Abortion” podcast with Dave Brennan. Dave heads up Brephos, a wing of the pro-life organisation CBR (Centre for Bioethical Reform) UK devoted to helping local churches engage effectively with the reality of abortion.
Having discovered this Substack (hi Dave!), Dave invited me on to apply some of what I’ve been doing here at The New Albion to work on the topic of UK evangelicalism’s fairly sorry approach to abortion. We discussed our differences with our American evangelical cousins, political theology, natural law, and more.