In December 1939, C.S. Lewis preached a sermon at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford. Entitled “Learning in Wartime,” he addressed the question of whether continuing to study at university was rather meaningless in a time of war. It’s become one of his most famous sermons, one of nine included in the volume The Weight of Glory. It’s been reproduced in this pdf document, but you’ll need to cursor down to page 95 to find the sermon. I include the link to the pdf document because Douglas Murray’s excellent essay on the sermon, “C.S. Lewis on Keeping Calm in Chaos,” may be behind a firewall at The Free Press.
More Monday Readings
Four Lessons for a Fragile America – Seth Kaplan at Tablet Magazine.
Are Rural White People the Problem? – Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs.
The Moroccan Sultan Who Protected His Country’s Jews During WW II – Theo Zenou at Smithsonian Magazine.
DEI killed the CHIPS Act – Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson at The Hill.
What Monks Know about Focus – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
A Visit to Great Tom at St. Paul’s – Spitalfields Life.
A Tale of Two Ewes – Brian Miller at A South Roane Agrarian.
Tavistock Square – A London Inheritance.
Photograph: St. Mary the Virgin Church, Oxford, UK, by J via Unsplash.
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