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Posted on June 26, 2026 by Emily Zaiser Wade
Proof number 793 that I’m an old soul: I resonate with a poem that laments the evils of progress…from 100 years ago. On my latest reading of C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, I came across this powerhouse of a poem in the last chapter….
Category: C.S. Lewis, Jesus, Masterful Poems, The Inklings, Uncategorized Tags: C.S. Lewis, God, poem, Progress, Social Media
Posted on June 5, 2026 by Emily Zaiser Wade
This week I finished re-reading C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and guys—it was thrilling. Seems like an odd description for a spiritual allegory from almost a century ago, but it’s true. I’d read it before, maybe during high school, so I found plenty of…
Category: C.S. Lewis, Jesus, The Inklings, Uncategorized Tags: biography, C.S. Lewis, Conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress
Posted on April 3, 2026 by Emily Zaiser Wade
Growing up, I heard the gospel (the good news that Jesus came to forgive us) from every angle: from my parents, church, story books, vacation Bible school, evangelists, and even Christian children’s records. Yes, records. I’m that old. But somehow my takeaway was always,…
Posted on December 19, 2025 by Emily Zaiser Wade
“In the Bleak Midwinter” In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;Heaven and earth…
Posted on November 7, 2025 by Emily Zaiser Wade
As Moses hung a bronze serpent on a pole to save people from venom, so Jesus hung on the cross to save us from sin. What a powerful symbol!
Posted on September 5, 2025 by Emily Zaiser Wade
According to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who see and those who don’t. We all enjoy the same universe around us, but our reactions depend on whether or not we see God’s signature in the mundane.
Category: Jesus, Masterful Poems, Uncategorized Tags: Blackberries, Burning Bush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jesus, Moses, Poetry
Posted on July 25, 2025 by Emily Zaiser Wade
“I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.” Joshua 24:13 We moved into our new…
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