Chewy Lewis Project » Uncategorized http://chewylewisproject.com Where Art and Christianity Fist Bump Each Other Kind of Awkwardly Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:31:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Lewis on Originality http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/10/529/ http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/10/529/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:08:36 +0000 http://chewylewisproject.com/?p=529 Mere Christianity, in its published form, is 60 years old this year. But the book was based on BBC radio talks given 8 years earlier during World War II. Here's the only recording that remains from the BBC broadcasts. It was recorded on March 21st...]]> Mere Christianity, in its published form, is 60 years old this year.  But the book was based on BBC radio talks given 8 years earlier during World War II.

Here’s the only recording that remains from the BBC broadcasts.  It was recorded on March 21st, 1944 and aired on the BBC on April 4th of the same year.  Lewis makes some interesting observations on originality, literature, and art 13 minutes in, if you’re of the patient sort:

]]> http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/10/529/feed/ 0 A Millionaire’s Vow of Poverty http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/09/a-millionaires-vow-of-poverty/ http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/09/a-millionaires-vow-of-poverty/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:15:52 +0000 http://chewylewisproject.com/?p=526 ]]> Founder of Domino’s Pizza reads Mere Christianity, takes a millionaire’s vow of poverty:

]]> http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/09/a-millionaires-vow-of-poverty/feed/ 0 About ‘Anesthetic Fog’ http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/08/about-anesthetic-fog/ http://chewylewisproject.com/2012/08/about-anesthetic-fog/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:22:49 +0000 http://chewylewisproject.com/?p=471 “What will all that chatter and hearsay count…when the anesthetic fog which we call ‘nature’ or ‘the real world’ fades away and the Presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable?” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Several folks* have emailed looking for some insight on this painting. For giggles, listen to the following two snippets; it’ll take less than 3 minutes if you jump to the time brackets below:
  1. Listen from 0:00 to 1:42 of A.W. Tozer’s]]> “What will all that chatter and hearsay count…when the anesthetic fog which we call ‘nature’ or ‘the real world’ fades away and the Presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable?”
    -     C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

    Several folks* have emailed looking for some insight on this painting. For giggles, listen to the following two snippets; it’ll take less than 3 minutes if you jump to the time brackets below:

    1. Listen from 0:00 to 1:42 of A.W. Tozer’s chapter on [God’s] Speaking Voice (bear with robo-voice):
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3iwxcP7pBQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
    2. Now here’s Brian Greene’s secular, scientific explanation of why the universe is the way it is.  Watch from 15:00 to 16:17

      http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html

    I have a vague memory of someone clumsily describing the process of placing faith in God by likening the process to sitting in a chair.  That illustration seems a little weak, but I reckon all of our understanding is shallow compared to the depth of reality and truth that actually exists, irrespective of our ability to comprehend it.

    After considering the above lines by Lewis, Brian Greene’s documentary The Elegant Universe (for context, a great subtitle would be “Quantum Physics for Dummies”), and reading “The Speaking Voice”, a chapter in A.W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God,  I’m convinced that these three works are corporately striking some inaudible chord of harmonic Truth.  In combination, these three media nuggets have bolstered my faith that God is present in ways we are incapable of comprehending, but in a way that’s more real than our ability to comprehend it.  This painting was an attempt to visually synthesize the overlapping agreements of these notions that seems to dissolve when translated into language – especially a blog.

    I believe the chair you’re sitting on, and everything around, is not only physical, but profoundly spiritual – by nature of its mere existence and what holds it together.

    Another possibility is that I’m insane and have no idea what I’m talking about.

    Either way, thanks for your interest in the painting!  Stay tuned; there’s a new one getting ready to come off the easel.  Updates to follow soon.

    *Several = my mom, and a friend

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