"This is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack, last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land."
C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy
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Love me some C.S. Lewis! All of the Narnia books are fantastic allegory, but The Great Divorce is currently my favorite of his writings I have read.
I hear Meer Christianity is powerful stuff but dense. Haven’t had a chance to read it yet
I read Narnia as an adult but still found the books charming, wonderful (in the literal sense), and insightful. Currently reading the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my children.
I recommend Mere Christianity. It has been many years since I last read it but I recall finding it very accessible.
That is where I first discovered that Lewis was a master at making accessible the complexities of life and scripture without watering down the content. Often his insights provide more richness and color and imagination to things I thought I already saw clearly. He was, as I believe John Piper has put it, a romantic rationalist.
Masculinity is being first in, last out, laughing loudest.
It is to be a man of both gravitas and mirth. To model Christ, the ultimate man, of whom all the King Lunes, Aragorns, and Theodens of fiction and history are but a shadow.
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/first-in-last-out-laughing-loudest
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