Why we need to know the past – CSL

“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
The learned life, then, is for some, a duty…”

C. S. Lewis, ‘Learning in War-Time’ in Essay Collection, 584.

Shepherds’ Stories

shepherds stories

The Gambia Partnership have released a fundraising DVD/digital download with testimonies from people you may know: Warren Peel, Sinclair Ferguson, Gavin Beers, my pal Parthee and Geoff Thomas. The testimonies were all recorded when the men were visiting Lewis to preach, and if you’re paying attention you might see a deacon from Stornoway RPCS hanging out with the big guns!

You can watch the trailer below, and then rent (£4) or buy (£6) it on Vimeo.