Welcome to Breakpoint, daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of Unchanging Truth

for the Colson Center on John Stone Street.

This week marks the anniversary of both the birth and the death of C.S. Lewis, one of the

most remarkable Christians of the last century.

Even today, nearly 60 years after his passing, Christians of all denominations, depths

and discernment continue to learn from C.S. Lewis about the nature and substance of faith.

The value of the wit and wisdom of this unexpected champion of the faith only becomes more obvious

even as the central message of Christianity that Jesus is Lord sounds more and more strange

to our late modern ears.

Lewis was uniquely effective at slipping behind even the most compelling defenses of materialism.

His writing, which could range from popular to academic, demonstrated a warmth and genuineness,

as well as his incisive mind and a passionate loyalty to truths considered radical today.

As portrayed in the brilliantly done film, the most reluctant convert, Lewis spent his

youth meandering through all kinds of worldviews and fashionable ideas.

A process, of course, that fits quite snugly within our early 21st century perception of

truth as a journey, and yet he refused to follow the script.

After a road filled with twists and turns, a little atheism and agnosticism over here,

a time of pantheism and spiritualism over there, Lewis finally stumbled back to first

theism and then to his own great horror, classical Christianity.

In a sense, Lewis embraced the faith of his father's inspired of himself.

As he wrote in God in the dock, quote, I didn't go to religion to make me happy, I always

knew a bottle of port would do that.

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