“The long, dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter 28

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1898 – 1963

British author and theologian best known for The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. A master of analogy who made complex theological ideas accessible and beautiful.

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