lady liln
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i don't have the slightest clue where to put this, but i'm posting it under c. s. lewis, b/c after all, he is his stepson and would therefore have been greatly influenced by lewis. so...has anyone read his books? i read lenten lands: my childhood with joy davidman and c. s. lewis for a research project i had this past spring. it's mostly autobiographical, but it gives a good perspective on lewis as well. i really really wanted to read jack's life: the life story of c. s. lewis also, but my school's library didn't have it and i didn't have time to order it.
gresham is a really cool person by his own right though, even aside from being the stepson of c. s. lewis. he and his wife run rathvinden ministries, which is sort of a a counseling center where they work with victims of child abuse and women who have lost children through abortion, stillbirth, etc.
i lovelovelove this:
"The only rule of the place," he says, speaking of Rathvinden Ministries, "is that as you come in through the front door, your denomination stays on the doormat along with the rest of the rubbish and your Christianity comes in with you."
Says Douglas, "I preach what Jesus taught. I think that if you stick with the gospels of Jesus Christ you can't really go wrong. The mistake that many churches, if not most of the churches, I think in the world today make is to try and sugar coat the gospels, or dress them up, or add bits to them, or attach rituals and ceremonials to them and so forth. I think you will see the results of that in the fact that most of the churches are empty.
He ads, "We must get away from the trivialities and extra bits and pieces and get back to what Jesus taught and what Jesus wanted us to do and wanted us to believe. If we do that, we'll have a much better world." - douglas gresham
gresham is a really cool person by his own right though, even aside from being the stepson of c. s. lewis. he and his wife run rathvinden ministries, which is sort of a a counseling center where they work with victims of child abuse and women who have lost children through abortion, stillbirth, etc.
i lovelovelove this:
"The only rule of the place," he says, speaking of Rathvinden Ministries, "is that as you come in through the front door, your denomination stays on the doormat along with the rest of the rubbish and your Christianity comes in with you."
Says Douglas, "I preach what Jesus taught. I think that if you stick with the gospels of Jesus Christ you can't really go wrong. The mistake that many churches, if not most of the churches, I think in the world today make is to try and sugar coat the gospels, or dress them up, or add bits to them, or attach rituals and ceremonials to them and so forth. I think you will see the results of that in the fact that most of the churches are empty.
He ads, "We must get away from the trivialities and extra bits and pieces and get back to what Jesus taught and what Jesus wanted us to do and wanted us to believe. If we do that, we'll have a much better world." - douglas gresham
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if he wasn't already married LOL.