Pg 194 to 195 – The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe As long as I kept up my daily tour to the hill to look out, so long also I kept up the vigour of my design, and my spirits seemed to be all the while in a suitable frame for so outrageous an…
Classic novels are classics for a reason right? Well, it certainly doesn’t seem that way sometimes. But at least with the novel The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe there is reason. I was actually looking through my sisters garage sale this summer and found two classics that I haven’t yet read. Robinson Crusoe and…
This is from Chapter 11 of the book God in the Dock by CS Lewis. In this essay Lewis presents a short response to the view of prayer that can be summarized as below: If [God] is all-wise … doesn’t He know already what is best? And if He is all-good won’t He do it…
Pg 148 to 149 – The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe When I had gone through this work, I was extremely delighted with it: the boat was really much bigger than I ever saw a canoe or periagua, that was made of one tree, in my life. … But all my devices to get it…
As a Christian – with a particular love of liberty – one of the big focuses I see in my readings is on Free Will. I’m a big advocate of Free Will. My stance for many years now has been “If God gave us the ability to make the greatest eternal choice, then I can…
The Economical Engineer 