Urban Skye

08/03/2026

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."

~ Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking

07/21/2026

"The single greatest threat is not the rise of secularism or the emptying of churches, but the apathy and indifference of the churches that are still here. People too self-absorbed and too affluent to care for anything outside their own social media bubble, beyond their own circle of friends, and beyond the view of their front lawns. Too many so-called disciples committed to the point of convenience, not to the point where their discipleship costs them anything.

Yet Jesus bids us all to come and follow Him, to leave worldly trinkets behind and to do hard things, crazy things and impossible things, for no other reasons than that He is our King, walking alongside us, suffering our earthly endeavours with the energy of the Spirit.”

— N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Powers

05/05/2026

I would rather be what God
chose to make me than the most glorious
creature that I could think of;
For to have been born in God's thought
and then made by God
is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.

- George MacDonald

05/01/2026

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

― C.S. Lewis On Three Ways of Writing for Children

04/25/2026

03/31/2026

During the course of his life, C.S. Lewis made a number of incisive observations about God, human nature, our place in the world, among many other topics. We are all in pursuit of happiness, but do we really have a good grasp of what happiness is? What follows are some of Lewis’s observations about “happiness.”

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“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic. [1. C.S. Lewis (God in the Dock,”Answers to Questions on Christianity” (1944), ans. 5, p. 52.)]

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. [2. C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, bk. II, chap. 3, para. 7, p. 54.)]

A “right to happiness”… sounds to me as odd as a right to good luck. For I believe – whatever, one school of moralists may say – that we depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, make much moře sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for your father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic. [3. C.S. Lewis (God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” (1963), para. 5-6, p. 318.)]

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best… As you perhaps know, I haven’t always been a Christian. I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but I can’t give any advice on it.”

[4. C.S. Lewis (God in the Dock, “Answers to Questions on Christianity” (1944), ans. 11, pp. 58–59.)]