by Adam Linton » September 12th, 2008, 1:33 pm
I was ten or eleven--1965, I think. My father took me to the old Tides bookstore in Sausalito, CA, with the offer to buy me any one book that I wanted (within reasonable parameters, of course). After a long time of searching, pondering, and interior debate I chose Out of the Silent Planet. It may have been a bit of a stretch for me then, but I much liked it. A couple of years later I started to read the Narnia books. The latter part of my first year of college (early 1973) I finished the Space Trilogy--and a couple of years later, Mere Christianity. My college reading of Lewis was very important in my return to active Christian faith. Perelandra sent me right to the edge, the very edge! Mere Christianity was key support and nourishment early on after going over the edge.
we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream