100 Blog Posts on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

It began with a playful Facebook question in June 2010, “Would anyone be interested in a series of blog posts on ‘A Counselor Reflects on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis’?” The response was enthusiastic enough to persuade me to see where the idea led. Now almost 2 years and 100 posts later I am on page 161 of 227 of my copy of Mere Christianity.

Those who know me well are doubtless laughing at my compulsive, verbose persistence. But so far it has been an enjoyable exercise in slowly reading, reflecting on, and applying a classic Christian work. Regularly engaging the logic, wit, and metaphor of C.S. Lewis has been beneficial.

As this series reaches its centennial mark, I thought I would offer my readers a chance to peruse all the titles in this series.

1. The Important of Our Disagreements
2. The Positive Side of Temptation
3. The “Deeper” Meaning of Being a Christian
4. What Would a Totally New Morality Look Like?
5. The Only Law We Can Disobey
6. What Needs to be Explained?
7. Good and Bad Desires Do Not Exist
8. What Would Make a Devil of Us?
9. “-Er” Requires a Standard
10. What is the Point of Playing Football?
11. Limits of Science: What vs. Why?
12. We Have Inside Information
13. Beyond Science: A Necessary Question
14. Creative Evolution: The Best of Both Worlds?
15. We All Want Progress
16. Only a Person Can Forgive
17. Goodness as Safety or Danger
18. How Comfort Is Not Found
19. Meaning, Darkness, and Eyes
20. Simple Religion
21. Good Things Wrong Methods
22. Be Good for Goodness Sake
23. Other Religions Not All Wrong
24. Evil as a Parasite
25. A Moral Civil War
26. Disagreeing With God
27. Made of Better Stuff?
28. Putting Yourself First
29. What Fuel Your Engine?
30. Jesus Forgives Sin Committed Against Me
31. Liar, Lunatic, or Lord
32. Disabled Death
33. Repentance Is Harder Than Eating Humble Pie
34. It Takes a Good Person to Repent
35. Humilitarian: A New Moral Diet
36. Deity: An Unfair Advantage
37. What Is a Live Body?
38. Why Doesn’t God Make Himself More Known?
39. Directions for Running the Human Machine
40. If I Simply Belonged to Myself
41. Living Beyond Seventy Years
42. One Mark of a Bad Man
43. One Good Tennis Shot?
44. What Makes Heaven, Heavenly?
45. Quacks, Cranks, and Moral Teachers
46. How Christianity Works
47. Who Would Like a Christian Society?
48. The Twin Obstacles to Generosity
49. Ally, Master, or Judge?
50. C.S. Lewis on Sigmund Freud
51. Courage and Illogical Fear
52. God Does Not Judge on Raw Material
53. Blame It On the Body?
54. Choices Turn the Central Part of You
55. The Momentum of Wisdom
56. Chastity Versus Modesty
57. The Most Unpopular Virtue
58. A Bacon Strip-Tease
59. Would Have Been the Best Sex Ever
60. Moralism… C.S. Lewis… Permissiveness
61. C.S. Lewis, Bulimia, and Pornography
62. C.S. Lewis on Divorce
63. Being “In Love” and Promises
64. C.S. Lewis on Mid-Life Crisis
65. C.S. Lewis on Two Kinds of Marriages
66. Forgiveness, A Lovely Idea
67. Forgiveness: If Received, Then Required
68. Forgiveness Made Easier: Part I
69. Forgiveness Made Easier: Part II
70. C.S. Lewis on Loving Myself
71. C.S. Lewis Meets His Murderer
72. Loving the Unlovable In Me
73. Invisible Vice
74. C.S. Lewis’ Pride Evaluation Question
75. C.S. Lewis’ Cure for Pride: Part I
76. C.S. Lewis on Self-Respect and Devil’s Laughter
77. C.S. Lewis on The Devil’s Cure
78. C.S. Lewis’ Portrait of Humility
79. C.S. Lewis on Temperament, Feelings, and Obedience
80. C.S. Lewis on “Fake It Until You Make It”
81. C.S. Lewis, Compound Moral Interest, and Spiritual Warfare
82. C.S. Lewis on How God Feels About Feelings
83. C.S. Lewis on Being Too Heavenly Minded
84. C.S. Lewis on “Out of This World” Pleasures
85. C.S. Lewis on Savoring Temporal Pleasures
86. C.S. Lewis on Doubting Faith
87. C.S. Lewis on Losing Faith
88. C.S. Lewis on Sin’s Current
89. C.S. Lewis on Jesus’ Full Temptation
90. C.S. Lewis Says, “Punt It”
91. C.S. Lewis Says, “Try Until You Realize You Can’t”
92. C.S. Lewis on the Insult of Everything for Nothing
93. C.S. Lewis on God-Saturated Human Effort
94. C.S. Lewis Rejecting What Not to Write
95. C.S. Lewis on Theology as Experience vs. Map
    
96. 80’s Fashion Combat, Old Theology, & Domestic Violence
    
97. C.S. Lewis Says, “Good Advice Is Over-Rated”
98. C.S. Lewis on God as Father and Creator
99. C.S. Lewis on Really Living
100. C.S. Lewis on Losing/Gaining Myself in God

… and there are over 60 pages in my edition of Mere Christianity to go! To be continued…