The CS Lewis Podcast #56 Meditation in a Toolshed - CS Lewis’ essays and short writings

2022-05-30T18:00:00+01:00

We begin season 6 of the CS Lewis podcast looking at a number of CS Lewis’ shorter articles, essays and sermons. ‘Meditation in a Toolshed’ (1945) sees Lewis exploring the idea of ‘looking at’ a beam of sunlight vs ‘looking along’ the beam. Alister and Justin discuss how Lewis related this idea to the Christian faith.

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