Month: May 2011

You may have heard of this book – it has spent at least ten weeks at the top of the New York Time’s best seller list for non-fiction. It’s only 150 pages long and is a very engaging and easy read. It chronicles in somewhat haphazard fashion the insights of 4-year old Colton Burpo during a three-minute visit to heaven as he underwent emergency surgery to save his life from a ruptured appendix that had gone undiagnosed for five days. In the months that followed his recovery (itself miraculous), his parents realize that Colton has seen and experienced heaven,...

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis It’s refreshing to read a theological book that doesn’t make our experience of reality, emotion and life the baseline for reality and actuality. C.S. Lewis firmly belongs to another age of thought that still expected that our perceptions and experiences ought to be conformed and shaped by God, rather than assuming that our perceptions and experiences are first of all accurate, and second of all proper. Lewis assumes neither, and in fact assumes that left to our own devices, our experiences and perceptions cannot possibly be either accurate or proper. Lewis discusses the...