Religion: C.S. Lewis Goes Marching On

The apostle of "Mere Christianity "converts a new generation

The road to England's Whipsnade Zoo is hardly the Road to Damascus, but it was dramatic enough for a brilliant Oxford don who traveled it one September day in 1931. As he later described his adventure: "When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion."

No blinding light or voice from heaven for Clive Staples Lewis; but his...

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