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Summer Report: Where I’ve been…

A baseball game (White Sox vs Twins) with my friend Matt - great seats! One of the very best things about working in higher education is getting to follow the rhythms of the academic calendar. In between the spring and fall semester is this three…

Justin BaileyAugust 12, 2022

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A Breakthrough Case: “Virality, Vitality, and Vulnerability”

Yesterday, I was planning to drive to Ames, Iowa, to give the Fall Areopagus lecture for a campus ministry at Iowa State. The lecture, which explores the relationship between theology and culture, is titled "Virality, Vitality, and Vulnerability." In the opening paragraph I talk about how…

Justin BaileySeptember 10, 2021

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And so the summer ends: 2021 life update

The Fall semester begins tomorrow, and I feel that nervous energy that always attends welcoming a new school year. Given everything going on in the world at the moment, and all that has happened over the last couple of years, I feel gravity and gratitude.…

Justin BaileyAugust 24, 2021

Thinking about Disenchantment: An Assist from C.S. Lewis for Understanding Charles Taylor

In pre-modern times, people lived in an “enchanted” world. There was a world of spirits, demons, and moral forces. God acted as the bulwark against evil, the means by which to hold these forces at bay. This means that the world is intrinsically less manageable,…

Justin BaileyOctober 26, 2016

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What is Real? (10): “I Knew It Was True!”

(This post will conclude the series! I hope it has been enjoyable.) This series began with a reflection on Lewis' description of Aslan as real, one which brought unexpected tears to my eyes. So why did this happen, and what is Lewis up to? What…

Justin BaileyFebruary 27, 2012

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What is Real? (9): “Aslan is Real”

Having examined Lewis' conception of the real, perhaps now we can begin to understand the depth of what he might have been thinking when he described Aslan as real. Aslan is real in contrast to the bleakness of the naturalistic world. Aslan is real in…

Justin BaileyFebruary 24, 2012

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What is Real? (8): “Now, With God’s Help, I Will Become Myself”

To recap: according to Lewis, myths are true because they point us to the deepest layers of reality. And the Christian myth is particularly true, because it truly happened in the coming of Christ. But Lewis goes farther than this. Not only is Christ real…

Justin BaileyFebruary 22, 2012

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What is Real? (7): “Myth Became Fact”

The great surprise of joy that Lewis speaks of in his autobiography was that there was indeed something real to satisfy his desire for Joy, and surprise upon surprise, his desires had been realized in the coming of a person. The Joy to which all…

Justin BaileyFebruary 20, 2012

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What is Real? (6): “If I Find in Myself a Desire Which Nothing in This World Can Satisfy…”

“This is what I have been looking for all my life.” Lewis puts these words into the lips of several of his characters: John in The Pilgrim’s Regress, Psyche in Till we Have Faces, Jewel in the Last Battle. The words represent a lifelong search for…

Justin BaileyFebruary 17, 2012

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What is Real? (5): Myths are Not Lies

Before Lewis met Tolkein, he writes in his autobiography that although he loved his imaginative life, he did not believe that the characters in his imaginary world were real: “I never mistook imagination for reality.” Indeed, when Lewis met Tolkein, the two would argue intensely…

Justin BaileyFebruary 15, 2012

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Summer Report: Where I’ve been…

A Breakthrough Case: “Virality, Vitality, and Vulnerability”

And so the summer ends: 2021 life update

Thinking about Disenchantment: An Assist from C.S. Lewis for Understanding Charles Taylor

What is Real? (10): “I Knew It Was True!”

What is Real? (9): “Aslan is Real”

What is Real? (8): “Now, With God’s Help, I Will Become Myself”

What is Real? (7): “Myth Became Fact”

What is Real? (6): “If I Find in Myself a Desire Which Nothing in This World Can Satisfy…”

What is Real? (5): Myths are Not Lies

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