Making Life Work

  By: Ronald L. Dart

    Years ago, a friend told me that I was an apologist. I would have been flattered, had I known what it meant. It was somewhat later that I encountered one of the greatest of Christian apologists, C. S. Lewis. Recently, I came across a quotation from C. S. Lewis that explained a vague disquiet that follows me around. "Apologists," he concluded, "can be saved only by falling back continually from the web of our own arguments into the reality. From Christian apologetics into Christ himself."

    Now, Lewis was remarkable in this regard. He was an intelligent, highly educated, well-read man, who also had the good sense to doubt himself, to examine himself, which one cannot do without self-doubt. Lewis understood the spiritual...