As we approach Remembrance Day and Veterans Day on 11th November, we echo C.S. Lewis’ question: What is the point of studying, working or making plans when the world is at war?
In September 1939, C.S. Lewis was an Oxford academic, a veteran of the First World War and a relatively recent convert to Christianity. As Britain entered another global conflict, evacuee children arrived at his home, his brother returned to military service and Lewis began asking how Christians should respond to a world in crisis.
Ruth Jackson is joined by C.S. Lewis researcher Bruce Johnson, author of From Airmen to Aslan with C.S. Lewis, to explore Lewis’ life at the outbreak of the Second World War and the enduring relevance of his sermon Learning in Wartime.
Why should we carry on with ordinary responsibilities when the future feels uncertain? And what can Lewis’ reflections on war, danger and the atomic age teach us today?
This is the first in a special series with Bruce Johnson.
