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Left to Right: Billy Sheldon, Ethel Mills, Sam Williams, Flora Greene, Johnny Snyder, Pauline Harvey, Samuel Barr, Mark Ocker
No full textLeft to right: Billy Sheldon, Ethel Mills, Sam Williams, Flora Greene, Johnny Snyder, Pauline Harvey, Samuel Barr, Mark Ocker.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/perisho_alaska/1261/thumbnail.jp
Amy Jones & Paul Bishop, Portland Zoo Railway
No full textAmy Jones and Paul Bishop, Portland Zoo Railway.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/perisho_alaska/1271/thumbnail.jp
Paula Jackson & Aurora Smith (Sampson)
No full textPaula Jackson and Aurora Smith (Sampson).https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/perisho_alaska/1285/thumbnail.jp
Sam Williams
No full textSam Williams.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/perisho_alaska/1286/thumbnail.jp
Gender and The Abolition of Man: The Masculine and the Feminine in Lewis’s Natural Law Thought
Full text linkC. S. Lewis wrote extensively about gender in both nonfiction and fiction works. In nonfiction, he lays out a specific understanding of gender with logical clarity; in fiction, Lewis develops a series of poetic images magnifying the depth of meaning found in being masculine and feminine. In both forms of writing, Lewis celebrates the goodness of God’s gift of gender, and summons his readers to receive the gift with gratitude. Reading Lewis’s works on gender functions as an antidote to gender ideology. Rather than a severing of felt experience and bodily reality, Lewis calls his readers to see the ideas of masculinity and femininity as the higher realities which express themselves in physical form. Such a view invites each human being into the larger story of God’s creation, enabling gratitude for being made imago dei: “male and female created he them.” His essays on gender are occasional in that certain moments prompted Lewis to bring forth his reasoning with logic and clarity. In “Priestesses in the Church?” Lewis considers gender as part of God’s creational order and argues that only a male priest can represent God to the congregation. Lewis’s ideas about gender fit within the theory of natural law and human nature outlined in The Abolition of Man. In The Four Loves, Lewis considers the question of friendship between the sexes; in that context, he makes an argument both about what is required for friendship, and how the sexes relate within that matrix. Because men and women share in the imago dei, friendship between the sexes is possible; Lewis contended that such friendship was highly unlikely because men and women lacked the common activities, interests, and intellectual preparation to form the matrix from which friendship grew. In this respect, Lewis’s conclusion would most likely change in the present given the rise in female participation in aspects of life previously only available to men. Today, men and women have a great deal of common activities, and more women are attaining the highest academic levels of study than men. Both of these changes enable a greater potential friendship between men and women
One Dominant Age: The Technological Singularity in The Abolition of Man
Full text linkI doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of the third part of C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. Much ink has been spilled analyzing Lewis’s thoughts on the dangers of subjectivism as outlined in the first two parts of the book, but less so on the endpoint to which Lewis thinks subjectivism leads when whole societies succumb to it. Yet Lewis himself, or at least his editor, thought the final part important enough to name the lecture series after it, and dramatize it in a novel afterward. If Lewis saw the train leaving the station over eighty years ago, we would be wise to consider whether he was right about its direction and its destination. What follows is an attempt to do so, from the perspective of a twenty-plus year veteran of America’s high-tech workforce. Having spent two lectures pointing out the dangers of subjectivism, and in particular the dangers of conditioning future generations to be subjectivists, Lewis pulls back the camera in the eponymous Abolition lecture to analyze the concept behind this impulse to condition, namely, the concept of “Man’s conquest of Nature.” He spends some time deconstructing this phrase. First, he makes clear that this was a common euphemism in his time which really meant “the progress of applied science.”1 Today this term is no longer in vogue; rather we use the more generic “technology” to refer to the same concept. It is relevant to note that as our power has increased through applied science, our notion of what this means in detail has become less specific. We no longer speak of “Man’s conquest of Nature,” which conjures a vision of ever-expanding power and control over the environment in which humans live. Instead, we use the mere “high-tech,” which only makes one think of seemingly—but not truly—less weighty concepts such as computers and smartphones. Already in our euphemisms subjectivism has fundamentally influenced the way we think about the future
Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Full text linkA review of Jem Bloomfield, Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2023), 288 pages. £16.99. ISBN: 9781915412300
C. S. Lewis: On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions, ed. by David C. Downing.
Full text linkA review of C. S. Lewis: On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions, ed. by David C. Downing. (New York: HarperOne, 2022). 208 pages. $23.99. ISBN: 9780063276444
Film Review of Freud’s Last Session
Full text linkA review of Freud’s Last Session, by Matthew Brown and Mark St. Germain, directed by Matthew Brown, starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode. Los Angeles: Sony Picture Classic, 2023. 1 hr., 48 min
Analysis of the Causes and Circumstances of the Arrests of Priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
Full text linkThe analysis of the reasons and circumstances of the detentions of priests from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) in the context of the military conflict shows that these events are a result of the interplay between the threat to Ukraine\u27s national security, violations of religious and civil rights, and external political aspects of the war with Russia. The detentions of UOC MP priests occur due to public calls for cooperation with the occupation forces, the spread of pro-Russian propaganda, the justification of Russian aggression, illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, as well as espionage activities. A particular role in this process is played by the church hierarchy of the UOC MP, which sometimes supports the positions of the Moscow Patriarchate, further strengthening its influence in the political and informational spheres. The detentions are systemic, covering various regions of Ukraine, and point to the scale of the problem. Operations to identify such individuals are an important component of the fight for national security and the protection of citizens\u27 religious rights from abuse for political purposes