The Desiring Guide National Conference begins on Friday.

It's a conference dedicated to CS Lewis, and we're titling the conference, The Romantic

Rationalist, God, Life, and Imagination in the work of CS Lewis.

The fun starts on Friday at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Pastor John, what do you look forward to from the speakers, and maybe give us a sense

of what you'll be sharing at the conference yourself?

Tony, the more I read and think in preparation for this conference on CS Lewis, the more excited

I get.

And I know that Lewis had his flaws, the more I read, the more I know personal flaws, moral

flaws, relational flaws, doctrinal flaws.

We won't celebrate those, and we won't ignore those.

But here's why we turn to him, frankly, with deep felt thankfulness and a desire to honor

him 50 years after his death.

Let me put it in a quote from Peter Krift in a essay that he wrote 30 some years ago.

I just love this quote, and it'll give the people a sense of what we're in for.

What's upon a dreary era?

When the world of specialization had nearly made obsolete all universal geniuses, romantic

poets, platonic idealists, rhetorical craftsmen, even Orthodox Christians, they're appeared

a man, almost as if from another world, one of the worlds of his own fiction.

Was he a man or something more like elf or angel?

Who was all these things as an amateur, as well as probably the world's foremost authority

in his professional province of medieval and Renaissance English literature?

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