Polemics & Exchanges
No Mere Christian The cover of your November issue suggests the truth that we, conservatives and especially conservative Christians, are engaged in spiritual warfare. And yet, smack in the middle of that issue, you print an article, “Remembering C. S. Lewis.” The reader is led to believe that this man has been a powerful instrument of truth and has fought the good fight of faith to the very end. In Lewis’s
Surprised by Joy (1955), we discover that he defended pederasty and perversion as “the only chink left through which something spontaneous and uncalculating could creep in”…. Then, we come to the more sordid aspects of his life. He had a relationship with a schoolmate, Arthur Greeves, and throughout his life wrote more letters to him than any other person… Later biographies disclosed that Mr. Greeves was a homosexual. It appears that Lewis was never moved by the impulse to separate as is mandated by both the old and new covenants.