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563<p>Because Google algorithms demand it, I am going to suppress my humility and list here some credentials consistent with the EAT Factor (expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness). Forgive me, I don’t intend to sound vain, and you read <a href="https://wordpress.com/post/mereinkling.net/90589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> why I decided to add this information at this time.</p>
564<p><strong>Biographical Notes</strong></p>
565<p>Robert C. Stroud is a retired Lutheran pastor who served 24 years as an Air Force chaplain. He is blessed to have been happily married to his wife, a special education teacher, for more than forty years. He is the proud father of six (including three who wedded our birth kids) and grandfather of eleven.</p>
566<p>He holds undergrad degrees in Journalism and History and a Master of Divinity degree in pastoral ministry. He received a post-M.Div. Master of Theology (Th.M.) in Patristics (early church history) from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. His Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis included research into blogging by clergy.</p>
567<p>Stroud has published numerous articles, a few of which are available via <a href="https://csl.academia.edu/RobertStroud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia</a>. He has also participated in a number of formal writing programs, including the Decision Magazine School of Christian Writing.</p>
568<p>During his ministry as a chaplain he received the Southwest Asia Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Included among his twenty personal decorations are Joint, Army, Navy and Air Force medals.</p>
569<p>While on the staff of the USAF Chaplain School, he served as speechwriter for two different USAF Chiefs of Chaplains.</p>
570<p>The Rev. Dr. Stroud continues to serve as an interim pastor, and through writing in a variety of venues.</p>
571<p><em>The photo above, with the space shuttle landing over Chaplain Stroud&#8217;s shoulder was taken when he was the senior chaplain at Edwards AFB, California.</em></p>
572<p><strong>The Reason for the Name</strong></p>
573<p>The title for this blog is derived from the name of one of the greatest writing communities ever to exist. Chief among the members of the <strong>Inklings</strong> who met weekly in Oxford were C.S. Lewis (of Narnia fame) and J.R.R. Tolkien (creator of Middle Earth).</p>
574<p>The adjective is taken from Lewis’ most significant nonfiction work, <em><strong>Mere Christianity</strong></em>. In the finest spirit of the saints who went before him, he pushes aside the religious forest which obscures the heart of Christianity . . . and lifts up Jesus Christ, who sacrificed his life upon a tree to purchase our redemption.</p>
575<p>Accordingly, many of the posts in <strong>Mere Inkling</strong> will be about writing and Christianity. History and humor are also keen interests of the writer of this column, so they will most certainly be encountered with regularity as well.</p>
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611				<p>Hey, Rob,<br />
612I&#8217;m impressed.  Great looking website&#8211;very masculine.  And since I&#8217;m part of the writers group you praised, I say thank you for the lofty comments about us.  Yes, we are a great group, much blessed by one another.  I understand the New Testament has over 50 &#8220;one another&#8221; comments.  Makes one think that our Lord and the founders of the beginning church knew something about &#8220;one another&#8221; principle.  We neglect it to our peril.<br />
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634				<p>Thank you for visiting my site and liking my post.  I am most grateful that it brought me to yours.  It has been an interesting journey writing about Christianity, God, Works of Mercy.  Sometimes I think I couldn&#8217;t have a least popular subject matter which is really sad for God and humanity.  So I am glad to come across a kindred traveler on this adventure.  My best &#8211; Lara</p>
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654				<p>As a sign of my appreciation I have nominated you for the Liebster award. You can find details about it here: <a href="http://mercyme40.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/leaping-for-the-liebster-award/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://mercyme40.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/leaping-for-the-liebster-award/</a></p>
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674				<p>Thank you. I actually don&#8217;t get into the blogging awards, but in gratitude, and out of respect for your nomination, allow me to briefly answer your questions:</p>
675<p>1. How do you think the world would be different if everyone practiced corporal and spiritual works of mercy- ie. feed the hungry, comfort the sick, forgive offenses etc. ?</p>
676<p>It would be the way God desires, a foretaste of heaven.</p>
677<p>2. When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up?</p>
678<p>I used to play soldiers and cowboys, but I don&#8217;t really recall what I dreamed about becoming.</p>
679<p>3. What is your favorite biblical scripture?<br />
680Definitely in my top 5 is Acts 19:15 which reminds us it&#8217;s not about knowing religious language, it&#8217;s about knowing the Son of God.</p>
681<p>4. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?</p>
682<p>The Holy Land, Rome and back to visit the Emerald Isles where we lived for three years. </p>
683<p>5.  What are the top three attributes that you think a Christian should have?</p>
684<p>Piety, Compassion and Courage.</p>
685<p>6.  Why do you blog?</p>
686<p>It encourages me to read and reflect . . . and I enjoy the interaction with others.</p>
687<p>7. How do you stand as a witness for God?</p>
688<p>As a pastor, I hope I do so with integrity.</p>
689<p>8. What is the nicest thing that someone has done for you?</p>
690<p>My wife married me back in 1976 and continues to love me despite my flaws.</p>
691<p>9. What was your favorite television show growing up and what is it now?</p>
692<p>I loved &#8220;The Man from U.N.C.L.E.&#8221; &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; and &#8220;Mission Impossible.&#8221; Today I really enjoy &#8220;Burn Notice&#8221; and &#8220;Parks &amp; Recreation.&#8221;</p>
693<p>10. If you could be king/queen for the day what is one thing you would require everyone to do?</p>
694<p>Honor life.</p>
695<p>11. What do you love most about God?</p>
696<p>His love for me and those I love.</p>
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716				<p>Rob-  I think I knew that about you from one of your posts, but since I do enjoy your blog I did it anyway :).  Thanks for answering the questions.  When you answered courage for being a Christian I thought how true that it is from the time Jesus lived until now.  Thanks for answering!</p>
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740				<p>Dear Rob &#8211; First, thank you for your service!  Second, thank you for the kind note you left at my blog &#8220;Civil War Medicine&#8221;&#8230;I didn&#8217;t get a chance to see the Cathedral that day but I have been there before.  I do wish I could contribute to the next issue of the Journal but I am stretched pretty thin right now with other writing commitments and it would probably be late next spring before I could.  I am honored by the invitation.</p>
741<p>I have been browsing Mere Inkling this morning&#8230;it is inspiring!</p>
742<p>Have you read &#8220;Looking for the King&#8221; by David Downing?</p>
743<p>All My Best,</p>
744<p>Jim Schmidt</p>
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764				<p>Jim,</p>
765<p>I&#8217;
765m delighted you enjoyed the posts. Thank you also for your willingness to write for Curtana: Sword of Mercy. I&#8217;m eager to see your article, whenever you&#8217;re able to write it. And yes, next spring will be fine.</p>
766<p>I just looked at Downing&#8217;s book and I&#8217;ve added it to my reading list. It looks like precisely the kind of entertaining and edifying balance that echoes Lewis&#8217; own work. Like Downing, I &#8220;met&#8221; C.S. Lewis as a college student. I found my way to the Wardrobe by first reading the Space Trilogy. </p>
767<p>Blessings to you and your loved ones,<br />
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788				<p>Rob, now a follower and tweeted about your site. So glad to find it! My husband is an Anglican Bishop and we both love CS Lewis. You may enjoy reading my blog about the Ancient Roots of Christianity in India. <a href="http://writingstraight.com/2012/02/27/indias-ancient-roots-of-christianity/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://writingstraight.com/2012/02/27/indias-ancient-roots-of-christianity/</a> Hope it&#8217;s ok to post here, but I&#8217;m an author and my husband is from India and over the years, we visited a lot of ancient sites of Christianity. I didn&#8217;t know St. Thomas was buried there and was glad to visit his tomb.  Happy to find this site and look forward to seeing your blogs come in my email.</p>
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810				<p>Hi Rob, thank you for commenting on my blog. I&#8217;m glad it resulted in my finding yours &#8211; I was excited to see it exists. Looking forward to catching up with your posts. I love everything I&#8217;ve read from C.S. Lewis (ashamed to admit I haven&#8217;t read the other famous Inkling&#8217;s books &#8211; the creator of Middle Earth, but I&#8217;m a big fan of the movies.)</p>
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830				<p>We have the SAME BLOG FORMAT, complete with C.S. Lewis based quotes&#8230; That&#8217;s terrifying.  But thanks for liking my post, newfound kindred spirit!  :)<br />
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851				<p>You know what they say about &#8220;great minds thinking alike!&#8221;</p>
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873				<p>Thanks for the like on my post!<br />
874You have an interesting blog. I myself am a Muslim, but grew up in a Protestant school system (England, before you ask), so I find discussions about religion to be worthwhile and interesting.</p>
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894				<p>what a wonderful blog &#8212; and THE INKLINGs &#8211; i am a Groupie of the whole gang (but especially Tolkien!) i also like your humor posts (!!) (aren&#8217;t the comics the most important part of the Newspaper?? altho the news can be kinda important, too! : )</p>
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914				<p>Hey Rob! Thanks for the recent visit to my blog and the &#8220;Like&#8221; on one of my posts. I have enjoyed checking out your blog and as a fan of Lewis and Tolkien I really like the name and premise ot it. If you&#8217;ve not heard of The Rabbit Room I think you&#8217;d enjoy it. It is a creative community begun by author/singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson after a visit to C.S. Lewis&#8217; home and is named for the back room of the pub that they met in. You can check it out at <a href="http://www.rabbitroom.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.rabbitroom.com/</a> Thanks again and God bless!</p>
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934				<p>Rob, I am so glad that you found my blog because it has allowed me to discover yours!  I will definitely be reading with interest.<br />
935Your fellow Inklingophile,<br />
936David</p>
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956				<p>I just found this blog after you &#8220;liked&#8221; one of my posts and i&#8217;m so glad I did, i&#8217;m a huge C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien fan. I&#8217;m go glad I started reading, your writing is so inspiring.</p>
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962						March 22, 2012 at 8:01 am					</time>
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976				<p>Thank you. I hope you&#8217;ll continue to find thought-provoking and encouraging posts here!</p>
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982						March 24, 2012 at 6:14 pm					</time>
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998				<p>I encountered your website after you liked my &#8220;Anthematic Borat Boo-boo&#8221; piece.  I like the style, the content that you consistently provide, your weltanschauung  and your literary disposition.  I find myself quoting CS Lewis quite a lot too.  I will happily be reading you in the future.</p>
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1004						March 24, 2012 at 10:02 am					</time>
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1018				<p>Hi Rob! What a thrill to meet others in the community of C.S. Lewis admirers.  Your website is a feast for the eyes and for the spirit, and I look forward to reading more of your past and future posts.  I&#8217;m so glad you stopped by!  Ramona</p>
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1038				<p>Thank you so much for liking my blog. It looks like we have some common interest in the Inklings, and I&#8217;m excited to see more from your blog. Good luck with it!</p>
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1058				<p>I love your blog title and explanation for it. Why the lion photo? In honor of a favorite C.S. Lewis character? Thanks for stopping by my blog. I look forward to reading more of your blog.</p>
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1078				<p>Yep . . . in honor of Aslan, and the amazing lion imagery in the Scriptures, especially the Messianic promises about the Lion lying down with the lamb.</p>
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1100				<p>Thanks for the like over on my blog and since you are writing about my favorite people, I am looking forward to reading. I love the photos you share on this page.</p>
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1120				<p>Hi there.  Many thanks for visiting my blog and liking my &#8216;Does God Suffer?&#8217; book review.  That book could definitely be of interest to you as a CS Lewis fan!  Best wishes, Steven</p>
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1140				<p>Thank you for visiting my blog, Rob. It&#8217;s clear we share lots of common interests, and I have been enjoying reading your posts. Lewis&#8217; Narnia series hold a very prominent place in my living room. When I first read them, many years ago in my early adut years, I couldn&#8217;t put them down! I heard somewhere that Dorothy Sayer, who wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series before going on to write theological works, was also a member of The Inklings. Is that true? I know her father was a pastor.</p>
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1160				<p>Thanks for visiting my blog, Rob. I have thoroughly enjoyed visiting yours and reading your posts. It seems we share some common interests and I will definitely be visiting yours again.  I first read Lewis&#8217; Narnia series many years ago, as a young adult. I couldn&#8217;t put down those books! They now hold a prominent place in my living room. I heard that Dorothy Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series who went on to write theological books after that, was a member of the Inklings. Is that true? I know her father was a pastor. Anglican, I believe.</p>
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1180				<p>Glad you enjoyed your visit. Actually, Sayers wasn&#8217;t a member of the Inklings. She was, however, a friend and correspondent of Lewis and Charles Williams. Coincidentally, on my C.S. Lewis Chronicles website (which has not been updated for years) I contemplated including her as an &#8220;honorary member&#8221; of the Inklings. I did take liberty with a couple other individuals if you&#8217;d care to see <a href="http://scriptoriumnovum.com/l/inklings02.html" title="here" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
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1202				<p>Hi Rob. I always enjoy your posts. Are you interested in reblogging your Pets in Heaven? piece on A Pilgrim in Narnia?</p>
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1222				<p>Sure, I&#8217;d be happy to have you reblog it there. And I&#8217;ve been enjoying the fruit of your pen as well!</p>
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1242				<p>Pen fruit &#8230; hmmm, think I&#8217;ll go for a snack!</p>
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1248						May 2, 2012 at 3:27 pm					</time>
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1266				<p>Rob &#8212; I enjoy C.S. Lewis and appreciate the way you fold his writing into your blog.  Would you mind if I include links to some of your postings in my own wee blog, with full credit and attribution to you?  Incidentally, I was a naval officer for six years back in the Vietnam days and always enjoyed my association with the chaplans who ministered to us.  It is a wonderful service provided to our military men and women and I hope our country continues that tradition.</p>
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1272						May 19, 2012 at 6:27 am					</time>
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1286				<p>Ron,</p>
1287<p>Feel free to repost whatever you&#8217;d like, with attribution. Thanks for your service in the 60s/70s. Did you do a tour in Nam? I have a good friend who was a Navy corpsman&#8230; very eager to be attached to Marines on land. However, he was assigned to a hospital ship off the coast and soon changed his mind about serving with the infantry. I was reclassified 1A (due to draft drawings) but graduated from high school the first year they didn&#8217;t draft anyone. (Probably would have gone the ROTC route, which would have changed my seminary timing a bit.)</p>
1288<p>If you have any special reflections about your interaction with chaplains, you might consider writing up something for an online chaplaincy journal I edit called Curtana: <a href="http://www.justwar101.com/journal" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.justwar101.com/journal</a></p>
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1310				<p>Thanks for liking one of my blog posts! Like many here, I&#8217;m glad you did because we have a common love for Lewis&#8217; writing (I&#8217;m deinitely an Inkling wannabe and I&#8217;m working to own every book of Lewis&#8217; in print&#8230; I&#8217;m close!). When I was a little girl I used to ask God to let me get into Narnia through my closet. I assumed that if he could do anything, this wouldn&#8217;t be that challenging for him!</p>
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1316						May 21, 2012 at 11:54 am					</time>
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1330				<p>Enoyed perusing your blog!</p>
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1336						June 9, 2012 at 7:11 pm					</time>
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1350				<p>“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” C.S. Lewis<br />
1351It is always a pleasure to meet a kindred spirit along the journey.</p>
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1357						June 12, 2012 at 1:08 pm					</time>
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1371				<p>Rob, thanks for liking one of my posts and making it possible for me to slip through the wardrobe (&#8220;blogworld&#8221; just has no glamour at all ) into the wonderful world of mereinkling. So glad to find you and other Lewis lovers. Tramped around Oxford with my brother last Spring trying to soak up all we could of Lewis. Look forward to finding more here!                                                                                                                                                               Blessings,                                                                                                                                                       Pam Grist</p>
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1377						July 8, 2012 at 4:19 pm					</time>
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1391				<p>Hi.  I love your blog.  You combine so many of my loves and share great wisdom that has kept me thinking. I would like to pass the Sunshine Award to you.  Reading your blog makes me smile.  I posted a link to see more about it. You&#8217;re supposed to save the picture, write up your post, and you can post the badge on your blog if you’d like to let all your readers know you won it.  You post serious content, so maybe this is more silly, but I&#8217;d like to still let you know, and perhaps you will enjoy this.  Thanks.</p>
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1393<p>Faith</p>
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1399						July 12, 2012 at 7:17 pm					</time>
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1413				<p>Faith,</p>
1414<p>Thanks for the praise. (I&#8217;ve enjoyed visiting your site also.)</p>
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1419					<time datetime="2012-07-12T19:35:18-07:00">
1420						July 12, 2012 at 7:35 pm					</time>
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1436				<p>Thank you for commenting on my blog about C.S. Lewis. I shared your blog with my community and have enjoyed snooping around myself. I&#8217;ve written about Lewis again this week on my blog if you care to visit again. Keep on with the excellent writing and reflections!</p>
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1442						July 29, 2012 at 7:33 am					</time>
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1456				<p>It&#8217;s funny how our blogs have the same format and also some similarities in content.  What a great resource for reflections on C.S. Lewis!</p>
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1462						August 2, 2012 at 7:09 pm					</time>
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1476				<p>Guess it&#8217;s true what they say about &#8220;great minds&#8221; thinking alike . . .</p>
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1482						August 2, 2012 at 9:20 pm					</time>
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1498				<p>I&#8217;m so glad you found my blog  &#8211; I really enjoy what I&#8217;ve seen of yours.  I love the Inklings concept &#8211; and the blogging world opens a new form of it that I suppose Tolkien and Lewis never even imagined&#8230;though, to be sure, their imaginations were such that maybe they did afterall&#8230;</p>
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1504						August 20, 2012 at 9:13 am					</time>
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1518				<p>Thanks for stopping by my blog. Hope to see you there again soon.</p>
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1523					<time datetime="2012-09-14T15:11:39-07:00">
1524						September 14, 2012 at 3:11 pm					</time>
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1538				<p>Your words are both enjoyable and relevant. This is just the sort of digital company I&#8217;ve been looking for. Thank you.</p>
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1543					<time datetime="2012-10-06T15:00:37-07:00">
1544						October 6, 2012 at 3:00 pm					</time>
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1558				<p>Thanks. I strive for both. I noted on your own blog that we have lots in common! Blessings to you and your husband as you serve God and the cause of peace (as members of the military family).</p>
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1563					<time datetime="2012-10-06T16:38:31-07:00">
1564						October 6, 2012 at 4:38 pm					</time>
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1580				<p>Thank you for visiting and liking my post, Surprised by Joy!</p>
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1586						October 9, 2012 at 6:48 am					</time>
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1600				<p>Rob, thanks for the like. My writer&#8217;s group is called the Weaklings in reference to the famed Inklings. Great to find another kindred spirit.</p>
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1620				<p>Ah, but do the Weakling also meet in a pub?</p>
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1640				<p>We did. It is called Derby Station. Then, over the last few years members began to have children and the ability to shell out money for food and beer and coffee each week became less and less of a reality. We&#8217;d hang out there for several hours reading manuscripts, writing, play darts, and talk books/writing. It was grand.</p>
1641<p>Now we meet at a coffee shop where a cup of Joe is a dollar. </p>
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1661				<p>Oh how life changes as we grow older. Just wait until you become a grandparent. It&#8217;s a glorious phase of life (if you can persuade your children to live close enough for you to be actively involved with their respective families).</p>
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1685				<p>Lewis and Tolkien have intrigued me for quite some time, not just their writings but their friendship. Great blog!</p>
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1705				<p>robstroud April 11, 2013 at 3:44 pm</p>
1706<p>Thank you, Arza. Appreciate the compliment!</p>
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1728				<p>I think the Inklings would have approved of this project:</p>
1729<p>readthefathers.org</p>
1730<p>Apologies if you have already seen this.  I plugged this in my latest post, but was curious if you wanted to join us!</p>
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1750				<p>I highly commend reading the Church Fathers. I&#8217;ve read through many of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene volumes you&#8217;re using. But, as Lewis emphasized, the classics are well worth revisiting. While I can&#8217;t make a &#8220;commitment&#8221; like this at the present moment, I wish you the very best&#8211;I hope many people accept your challenge. We both know they won&#8217;t regret it.</p>
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1755					<time datetime="2012-11-20T20:12:30-08:00">
1756						November 20, 2012 at 8:12 pm					</time>
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1772				<p>I have really enjoyed your blog, so I nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. The rules are at <a href="http://www.livesimplykmm.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.livesimplykmm.wordpress.com</a><br />
1773Congrats!</p>
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1778					<time datetime="2012-12-17T09:45:07-08:00">
1779						December 17, 2012 at 9:45 am					</time>
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1793				<p>Thank you.</p>
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1799						December 17, 2012 at 11:56 am					</time>
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1815				<p>Thank you for the &#8220;like&#8221; on my blog. I came over here to check yours out and loved the posts I have read so far! I will be following via my other blog, <a href="http://www.emmebooks.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.emmebooks.wordpress.com</a>. Thanks!</p>
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1821						February 3, 2013 at 9:00 am					</time>
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1835				<p>Thank you for liking our post, &#8220;Aim At Heaven&#8221;. This is a really great site, I will follow and I look forward to your posts. &#8211; Claudia</p>
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1841						February 6, 2013 at 9:08 am					</time>
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1847		<p>Pingback: <a href="http://arzawinters.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/i-probably-trip-on-my-way-to-receive-my-first-blogging-award-or-podiums-are-dangerous/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">I Probably Trip on My Way to Receive My First Blogging Award, or, Podiums are Dangerous &laquo; I&#039;m Really a Robot</a> </p>
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1858				<p>I appreciate the like on my post, and I&#8217;m happy to have found your blog.</p>
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1863					<time datetime="2013-02-26T22:00:04-08:00">
1864						February 26, 2013 at 10:00 pm					</time>
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1878				<p>This sounds GOOD!!!</p>
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1890		<p>Pingback: <a href="http://sevennotesofgrace.com/2013/06/11/whatever-is-lovely-blog-award/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Whatever is Lovely &#8211; Blog Award | sevennotesofgrace</a> </p>
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1901				<p>Thank you for liking my post. :)</p>
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1921				<p>Thanks for the &#8220;like&#8221; over at Squinting through Fog.  I love what you&#8217;re doing here, and appreciate the heads up about The Silver Chair, even if it might be a bit of a wait.  Looking forward to picking up a copy of Lewis&#8217; book on imagination when it comes out&#8230;</p>
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1941				<p>Just a heads up. I&#8217;ve launched out on my own to try to increase the amount in the family coffers (and save for missions trips, etc.), so my website had to move off WP dot com and they won&#8217;t send you email updates any more. If you want to keep up by email please stop by and sign up.<br />
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1962				<p>Blessings in your new adventure.</p>
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1984				<p>Hey Rob, as you know I have spent time on your blog. I liked what I saw and I like what I see. Naturally, I’ve nominated you for a Liebster Award and would appreciate your acceptance.</p>
1985<p>If you&#8217;d rather not, do not give it a second thought. It is not terribly serious, but it is a good way for you to link to people you read. Thus providing me with more people to read.</p>
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1987<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;" title="&#8220;A Liebster Award&#8221; &#8212; A Pen Full of Vinegar" src="https://apenfullofvinegar.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/a-liebster-award/embed/#?secret=vOMawh2b2u#?secret=QEmDU1ReDN" data-secret="QEmDU1ReDN" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>
1988<p>The rules are reasonably simple. You write 11 facts about yourself. Nominate 11 more people and answer my 11 questions. </p>
1989<p>But I&#8217;m nearly certain that it&#8217;s all a moot point as you do not accept awards&#8230; Which is more than fair. I&#8217;ve dodged more than my share of these things. But if nothing else give me 11 blogs you would nominate, so I can go follow them too.</p>
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2009				<p>Thank you for the nomination, and for respecting the fact that I defer from participating in the myriad of awards that abound in the blogosphere. Out of respect for your consideration, however, I did answer your 11 questions back on you page!</p>
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2015						May 25, 2014 at 5:48 pm					</time>
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2031				<p>Thanks for visiting my blog: it was a nice surprise and a great compliment as I admire your own work.</p>
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2037						June 7, 2014 at 7:01 pm					</time>
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2051				<p>I only wish I had more time to read and encourage those who take the time to visit Mere Inkling. Keep up your good work!</p>
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2057						June 7, 2014 at 7:36 pm					</time>
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2073				<p>Rob, by any chance did you grow up in Cheam?</p>
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2078					<time datetime="2014-08-18T14:52:57-07:00">
2079						August 18, 2014 at 2:52 pm					</time>
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2093				<p>Afraid not, although when I was in the USAF, we had the joy of living for two years at RAF Greenham Common in Newbury, and a year at RAF Alconbury near Huntingdon. My wife and I were just talking yesterday about Samuel Johnson&#8217;s famous saying, &#8220;when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.&#8221;</p>
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2099						August 18, 2014 at 3:29 pm					</time>
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2115				<p>Hello Sir. I appreciate you taking the time to read and like my post. All the best to you!</p>
2116<p>Vanessa</p>
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2136				<p>I enjoy reading words of faithful encouragement such as yours. Keep up the fine writing.</p>
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2158				<p>Thank you for visiting my site and liking one of my posts. My blog is pretty new and every little encouragement means a lot. :) I can&#8217;t wait to discover more of your site.</p>
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2178				<p>A little encouragement is always a good thing. Particularly when one begins making themselves vulnerable on the internet. Best of luck with your ongoing writing!</p>
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2184						May 9, 2016 at 9:46 am					</time>
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2200				<p>Always given food for thought by my visits here. Welcome nourishment!</p>
2201<p>Regards Thom.</p>
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2221				<p>That&#8217;s my goal, and I&#8217;m glad to receive feedback that I sometimes reach it. Thanks.</p>
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2243				<p>Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and &#8220;liking&#8221; a post there. God bless you in your blogging and in your ministry.</p>
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2263				<p>God bless you, as well!</p>
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2269						October 1, 2016 at 1:15 pm					</time>
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2285				<p>Thanks for your recent visit to my blog. Glad I found your blog. I have BA and MA in religious studies but that was decades ago and I really never &#8220;studied&#8221; in the full sense of the concept. I have committed to hand writing the New Testament. Try to do a page or so each day. Have finished Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans and I Corinthians. I think I have really learned what study means.</p>
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2291						October 16, 2016 at 4:40 am					</time>
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2305				<p>Wow, that&#8217;s quite a discipline. Actually essentially as a scribe, you&#8217;ll be immersed in the Word for a good long time. A bit different, I suspect, than your BA and MA studies!</p>
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2311						October 16, 2016 at 2:36 pm					</time>
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2327				<p>I love C.S. Lewis and especially your description of him- &#8220;In the finest spirit of the saints who went before him, he pushes aside the religious forest which obscures the heart of Christianity&#8230;&#8221;<br />
2328I found you through Riverbed blog and am looking forward to reading more of yours.  Thank you for your &#8220;likes&#8221; on my blog robstroud! God Bless you and your wife and those fabulous 8 grandchildren.</p>
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2334						October 26, 2016 at 6:20 pm					</time>
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2348				<p>Elizabeth, glad to have another fan of C.S. Lewis find Mere Inkling. </p>
2349<p>I enjoyed your blog. It is wonderfully encouraging to see people fighting their particular challenges. As the son of an alcoholic, I know just how much all of those who love you celebrate over each day you are victorious. </p>
2350<p>Best part about being a Christian is knowing that we&#8217;re forgiven and even when we stumble, the Father&#8217;s arms are open wide and there&#8217;s no wagging finger.</p>
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2356						October 26, 2016 at 8:59 pm					</time>
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2372				<p>Thank you for visiting our blog and liking one of our posts.  Mom says she enjoys sharing our &#8220;tails&#8221; of adventure.  She also said to tell you that she really likes C.S. Lewis.  Great job on your blog.<br />
2373Stereo purrs&#8230;&#8230;..Hemingway and Steinbeck</p>
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2379						March 4, 2017 at 5:34 pm					</time>
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2393				<p>Stereo purrs&#8211;I bet that&#8217;s amazing in person. We only ever had one cat in the family at a time. Glad you enjoyed your visit.</p>
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2399						March 6, 2017 at 1:27 pm					</time>
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2415				<p>thanks for visiting my blog &#8211; am enjoying your site &#8211; wishing you much success &amp; fun with yours :)</p>
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2435				<p>Enjoying your posts, thanks for the like 😊☺️</p>
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2441						September 25, 2017 at 7:55 pm					</time>
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2455				<p>Glad you enjoyed your visit. Keep writing!</p>
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2460					<time datetime="2017-09-25T20:52:48-07:00">
2461						September 25, 2017 at 8:52 pm					</time>
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2477				<p>Wonderful blog! Well done.</p>
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2482					<time datetime="2018-02-09T17:22:43-08:00">
2483						February 9, 2018 at 5:22 pm					</time>
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2497				<p>Keep writing. Your poetry is quite nice. And, congratulations for being a spelling bee champ!</p>
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2503						February 9, 2018 at 7:30 pm					</time>
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2517				<p>Thank you ever so much!</p>
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2522					<time datetime="2018-02-09T19:43:13-08:00">
2523						February 9, 2018 at 7:43 pm					</time>
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2533		<p>Pingback: <a href="https://mereinkling.net/2018/09/12/touting-your-credentials-humility/" class="url" rel="ugc">Touting Your Credentials (&amp; Humility) &laquo; Mere Inkling</a> </p>
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2544				<p>I would like to nominate you for the Mystery Blogger Award.</p>
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2550						April 14, 2019 at 10:49 pm					</time>
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2564				<p>Dear Reverend Stroud,</p>
2565<p>I hope that you have been reasonably well and upbeat in the first quarter of 2021.</p>
2566<p>Having read some of your posts and judging by the number of posts that you have published as well as the number of comments and replies that you have composed, it is very obvious that you have been very prolific over the first quarter of 2021.</p>
2567<p>In the spirit of Easter, I would like to wish you, albeit belatedly, &#8220;Joyeuses Pâques!&#8221;</p>
2568<p>I hope that you have had a lovely Easter weekend!  Did you manage to do something special or unusual?  Perhaps you have taken the chance to do something very worthwhile or read some unusual articles.  Perhaps you have had the opportunity to consume some Easter cakes or memorable meals.</p>
2569<p>Speaking of what I have got myself occupied in, I have stayed up till very late in the last few days to complete some new graphics and eye-catching animations plus more pertinent information for my special Easter post entitled &#8220;<strong>Easter in Modern Multimedia Perspective</strong>&#8220;, which you can easily find at the Home Page of my blog, as it is currently the Featured Post.  You can also access the post directly at <a href="https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/easter-in-modern-multimedia-perspective/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/easter-in-modern-multimedia-perspective/</a></p>
2570<p>You are very welcome to peruse the extended and updated post at your earliest convenience.  I would be delighted if you could kindly submit your feedback to my said post, as I am very keen and curious to know what you think or make of it, given your experience and wisdom.</p>
2571<p>I would like to inform you that these animations will only be visible when you visit my blog and view its contents in situ.  Hence, it is prudent to refrain from viewing my blog in the WordPress Reader, which tends to ignore or strip away some styling and formatting components, and also fails to display animations, all of which are aplenty in my posts and pages, which will look very different and even improper or amiss in the WordPress Reader.</p>
2572<p>In particular, scroll down to the end of my said post entitled &#8220;<strong>Easter in Modern Multimedia Perspective</strong>&#8221; to watch the complex animations under the heading &#8220;Related Articles 📰 with Animations&#8221;.  Please enjoy!</p>
2573<p>May you find April very much to your liking and highly conducive to your writing, reading, thinking and blogging about whatever topics that take your intellectual fancy, seduce your gustatory pleasure or tickle your spiritual delight!</p>
2574<p>Yours sincerely,<br />
2575ჱܓSoundEagle🦅</p>
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2580					<time datetime="2021-04-06T16:23:46-07:00">
2581						April 6, 2021 at 4:23 pm					</time>
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2595				<p>I am pleased your Easter was as blessed as ours. After church we had our kids, their spouses, and our ten young grandchildren here. We also had the parents of our daughter-in-law with us. It was wonderful. Kept our focus on the true reason for the celebration&#8230; even though we did hide eggs for the kids.</p>
2596<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to checking out your new animations, and will go there now. You don&#8217;t need to caution me about the wp reader&#8230; I&#8217;m a &#8220;purist,&#8221; and visit original pages whenever possible.</p>
2597<p>Thanks also for the great blessing at the end of your note!</p>
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2619				<p>Rob your website is quite impressive. I find the title of your blog interesting as it is derived from &#8220;The Inklings&#8221; group which was composed of C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, and Dorothy Sayers. What a good play on words! Blessings and Peace!</p>
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2639				<p>I&#8217;m glad you enjoy Mere Inkling, Claudia. Your own blog is quite inspiring as well.</p>
2640<p>The inspiration for the title of this writing ministry is actually trifold: (1) Inklings inspired, (2) Mere Christianity oriented, and (3) a reminder to remain humble since I only comprehend a mere inkling of the wonders of God&#8217;s hand.</p>
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2660				<p>Thanks. Awesome inspiration for your ministry title. My website title is relatively simply derived from rhema &#8211; The spoken word. Thank you so much for stopping by&#8212;Blessings and Peace!</p>
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2684				<p>Hi Rob … have been a long time subscriber but finally making contact! My wife and I love Inklings .. and like many others, bask in the wisdom and insight that CS Lewis and Co, offers. As a retired Pressie minister (down under) I found much help and guidance in reading his words, though, unlike the late Tim Keller, on my tighter weeks of preparation, I didn’t illustrate passages with copious references to CSL. Though.. that may have been more of a blessing than my merge offerings!<br />
2685Just wanted to say thank you for your efforts .. we love you work! Steve</p>
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2705				<p>Steve, it is so wonderful to hear from you, and to learn you have been reading Mere Inkling for some time. Like you, I referenced C.S. Lewis sparingly, since I didn&#8217;t want anyone to think I &#8220;worshiped&#8221; him. I do, of course, regard him as my greatest mentor.</p>
2706<p>And, yes, the congregations I served may have be more blessed had I quote Lewis more liberally.</p>
2707<p>My traveling days are behind me, but I always thought it would be wonderful to visit Australia. Although it&#8217;s remote and not in travel brochures, I would definitely want to visit the site of the Batavia shipwreck: <a href="https://www.sea.museum/2016/06/04/barbarism-and-brutality-surviving-the-batavia-shipwreck" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.sea.museum/2016/06/04/barbarism-and-brutality-surviving-the-batavia-shipwreck</a></p>
2708<p>Thank you for writing, and &#8212; since we know pastors never fully retire &#8212; blessings in your continuing ministry!</p>
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2730				<p>Thank you for taking the time to discover a little about Lewis&#8217; interest in William Blake. You are very correct in saying that Blake was rather odd.</p>
2731<p>However you fall into a common trap that many people do with (if you will forgive me) limited exposure to Blake. I have been engaged in research on Blake for a number of years with a particular interest in The Songs, exploring certain biblical imagery and theological perspectives within them. I am currently completing an academic paper on a &#8216;Theology of Hope&#8217; within two Songs of Innocence.</p>
2732<p>It is inaccurate to simply declare that William Blake was not a Christian. He was decidedly a Christian and most particularly, a committed and passionate follower of Christ. However, he was uncomfortable with God as Father because the institutional/Established church had exploited that for its own patriarchy and authoritarianism. And I&#8217;m not sure that he threw out the idea of the Trinity.</p>
2733<p>Blake was what I call an orthodox unorthodox Christian.</p>
2734<p>The other challenge with William Blake is knowing when and where to take him seriously. I think this can be difficult for Americans because of their very different sense of humour compared to the rest of the English-speaking world. Blake was full of paradoxes, eccentricities, and self-contradictions. He had a deeply feeling heart and extraordinary insight into the human condition, but he could be also quite quick tempered and sometimes quite impatient. </p>
2735<p>Blake most especially loved to &#8220;take the pi&#8211; [urine],&#8221; to confuse as much as to explain, to deliberately provoke and unsettle people. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is such a prime example of this and one of the reasons many Blake scholars love it. Here, one needs to take Blake  with a grain of salt  &#8211; when he talks, for instance, about an angel who as an especial friend ina devil, and with whom he loves to read the Bible &#8220;in its infernal sense&#8221;. The cardinal sin is to take Blake too literally. If you look at his illustrations to the Bible (go to the Blakearchive.com), or his amazing Job engravings you will discover that he is very faithful to the source texts.</p>
2736<p>I have no interest or appetite for his mythological works &#8211; all to complicated for me &#8211; but other scholars adore them.</p>
2737<p>Perhaps what I love most about Blake is that he was very deeply human, which certainly meant flawed. He didn&#8217;t like to be too predictable or too easily pinned down. He had a very great loving and compassionate heart, a true fire about injustice, especially poverty. He very clearly suffered from terrible bouts of severe depression.</p>
2738<p>I love him for his heart, his intelligence, his extraordinary imagination, his fine and stirring poetry and visual art. I love it that he cannot really be pigeon-holed. I suspect Blake was more of an influence on Lewis than is usually recognised. When I read this excerpt from &#8220;Little Girl Lost&#8221; (Songs of Experience) I could not be help think of Aslan.</p>
2739<p>Sleeping Lyca lay,While the beasts of prey,Come from caverns deep,Viewed the maid asleep.</p>
2740<p>*The kingly lion stood,*And the virgin viewed:*Then he gambolled round**O&#8217;er the hallowed ground.*</p>
2741<p>Leopards, tigers, playRound her as she lay;*While the lion oldBowed his mane of gold,*</p>
2742<p>*And her bosom lick,And upon her neck,From his eyes of flame,Ruby tears there came;*</p>
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2762				<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful message. I particularly enjoyed your sharing of &#8220;Little Girl Lost.&#8221; It certainly does evoke the image of Aslan and Lucy.</p>
2763<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My overall response to your argument in support of Blake is rather simple. As a historic believer in the &#8220;mere Christianity,&#8221; I look to the Nicene Creed as a source of essential doctrinal beliefs or doctrines. Thus, to be &#8220;orthodox&#8221; or &#8220;catholic&#8221; (in the sense of membership in the &#8220;universal&#8221; church)&#8230; a person would affirm the Trinity, Incarnation, etc. Rejection of these fundamental beliefs mean a person adheres to some alternative (often syncretistic) religion. While everyone is utterly free to profess any faith they like, alternative expressions (e.g. unitarianism) are not identified with the mere Christianity with which Lewis, Tolkien, and I take our stand.</p>
2764<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You tacitly recognize this very distinction when you write &#8220;Blake was what I call an orthodox unorthodox Christian.&#8221; I completely understand that description. However, I believe that while he might refer to himself as &#8220;Christian,&#8221; the &#8220;unorthodox&#8221; aspect of the description reveals the fact. Such as person has devised a religion of their own, which may be &#8220;closer&#8221; to credal Christianity than to other religions, but is actually a <em>novel</em> (in the Patristic sense) belief system.</p>
2765<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As for the use of humor, as Mere Inkling reveals, I am an admirer of great humorists despite their religious beliefs. For example, I am fascinated by the iconoclastic Mark Twain.</p>
2766<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lewis&#8217; own <em>Screwtape Letters</em> are clearly identified as fictional. If made clear by an author that their genuine beliefs differ from those they are &#8220;professing&#8221; in a work (e.g. the value of communication with the dead in seances), I have no problem at all. </p>
2767<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I appreciate your admiration of Blake. Many noble people exist outside the boundaries of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.</p>
2768<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Again, thank you for your well-reasoned comments. And, for introducing me to &#8220;Little Girl Lost.&#8221;</p>
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2788				<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thank you &#8211; there is much reason for reflection in what you say, and I agree about those fundamentals of beliefs expressed in the Nicene Creed. I suppose I do give Blake a very wide berth when I refer to him as a Christian, perhaps too wide a berth. You&#8217;ve given me pause to consider further. I think it is that most Blake scholars (who aren&#8217;t themselves religious) deny those beliefs of his that are Christian. They get all excited about radical sects he had some connections with (but not ongoing) like Swedenborg etc. In the &#8220;Everlasting Gospel&#8221; he keeps referring back to the Gospel Jesus and that work leaves no doubt that he was a passionate follower of Jesus, even if his beliefs weren&#8217;t sufficient to make him fully Christian.</p>
2789<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;m working on &#8220;The Lamb&#8221; amongst others. This is a clear and beautiful theological reflection on the event of the Incarnation. At first it seems that he denies the first person of the Trinity (God the Father) as being the Creator (and that is a gap certainly). To claim, however, that the Incarnate God was Creator is consistent with John 1&#8230;Complex beliefs I think&#8230;</p>
2790<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For myself &#8211; I am an orthodox Christian, tho&#8217; oscillating between the Catholic and Anglican traditions&#8230;</p>
2791<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thank you, Ruth</p>
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2815				<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nice to hear from you again, Ruth.&nbsp;</p>
2816<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I do think Blake was a fascinating person. But I doubt he and I would define the “Gospel” in the same way.&nbsp;</p>
2817<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I would be very curious to know how seriously he took the “<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-blake-39/blakes-characters" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow ugc">mythology</a>” he himself created. He certainly invested a great deal in developing it.</p>
2818<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One reason to be suspicious about the source(s) of his inspiration comes in the matter of “automatic writing,” which often has occultic overtones.</p>
2819<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But enough about Blake. I want to encourage you to find a church home and make a commitment to a faith community where you can serve, as well as grow. Many Roman Catholic priests are faithful and selfless, although the current state of the church finds it drifting from its moorings.&nbsp;</p>
2820<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As for the Anglican communion, there are several dynamic options. While the Episcopal Church in the U.S. sadly celebrates heterodoxy, the Anglican offshoots typically remain faithful to the historic teachings of the apostolic Church. May God continue to lead you in your pilgrimage as a disciple of Jesus.</p>
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2840				<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thank you Robert &#8211; and for your faith encouragement. I do kind of have a Catholic parish (Catholics, esp in Oz, drop the &#8216;Roman&#8217; bit for historical reasons &#8211; possibly tied to the suppression of Catholics in the UK as assumed virtual traitors with political Roman allegiances). The parish is is run by order priests (a monastic order, but not confined to a monastery) and they are very progressive in thinking, esp about women. That&#8217;s my church connection.</p>
2841<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Most Blake scholars are fascinated with the mythology. I don&#8217;t think Blake believed in the characters as literally gods or anything like that. Even in his bold assertion of creating a new kind of religious &#8220;system&#8221; (The Marriage). It may well have been a way of writing about political matters in a time in which they were extremely sensitive in Britain &#8211; in a similar way to the apocalyptic biblical books were writing in a kind of code, especially much of Revelation (though more literal interpreters of the Bible may question that assertion). The next fifty or more years after the French Rev were quite oppressive in England, reacting against events in France etc. I think Blake believed in the immense power of creative expression &#8211; narrative, verse, visual images/art &#8211; to transform. I&#8217;m not surprised if he dabbled a little (*eg automatic writing) but otherwise I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much evidence of his use of the occult. I think he did believe in the Holy Spirit, but he saw the Gospel in a bigger sense, and included some non-orthodox ideas</p>
2842<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Anyway &#8211; I lastly wanted to pass on the other mention of the lion I&#8217;d forgotten about , in &#8220;Night&#8221; (Innocence) This was the one that made me think: CS Lewis must have read this!</p>
2843<p class="wp-block-paragraph">NB &#8220;They&#8221; refers to angels&#8230; Stanzas 3-5 (3&amp;4 are quoted for context)</p>
2844<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They look in every thoughtless nest<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where birds are cover&#8217;d warm;<br />They visit caves of every beast,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To keep them all from harm:<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If they see any weeping<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That should have been sleeping,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They pour sleep on their head,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And sit down by their bed.</p>
2845<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When wolves and tigers howl for prey,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They pitying stand and weep,<br />Seeking to drive their thirst away<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And keep them from the sheep.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But, if they rush dreadful,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The angels, most heedful,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Receive each mild spirit,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;New worlds to inherit.</p>
2846<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And there the lion&#8217;s ruddy eyes<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shall flow with tears of gold:<br />And pitying the tender cries,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And walking round the fold:<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Saying, &#8216;Wrath, by His meekness,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And, by His health, sickness,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are driven away<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From our immortal day.</p>
2847<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8216;And now beside thee, bleating lamb,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I can lie down and sleep,<br />Or think on Him who bore thy name,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Graze after thee, and weep.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For, wash&#8217;d in life&#8217;s river,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My bright mane for ever<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shall shine like the gold<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As I guard o&#8217;er the fold.&#8217;</p>
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2867				<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That is a wonderful poem. No doubt Lewis was acquainted with it. Its imagery could quite possibly have influenced him; it is extremely vivid. Thank you for sharing it.</p>
2868<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As for the use of &#8220;Catholic&#8221; for the communion/denomination, we do the same in the States. In fact, Roman Catholics almost always use it in an exclusive sense. In is that &#8212; the inference that the word belongs to a particular branch of the church &#8212; that many of us find objectionable.</p>
2869<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We all confess (in the Nicene creed) that there is only one catholic (universal) Christian church, but that is not at all synonymous.</p>
2870<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As for the history of the religious persecutions in Great Britain, I have studied it to some degree. So shameful (worse than shameful, sinful) to see the persecutions in either direction. By the way, one of my dearest friends is a Roman Catholic priest with whom I was stationed early in my Air Force career. He was actually born and raised in England&#8230; and possessed personal experience in the context of that nation with its &#8220;established&#8221; church. As for Australia, you folks have your own unique perspectives down there in the Southern Hemisphere!</p>
2871<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Blessings to you, Ruth.</p>
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2893				<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In response to your posts on Mark Twain and The Mysterious Stranger, I thought you might be interested in the recent essay I wrote: <a href="https://firstthings.com/mark-twains-religion/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://firstthings.com/mark-twains-religion/</a> It&#8217;s derived from my recent book &#8220;There is No Humor in Heaven&#8221;: Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism.</p>
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2913				<p>Thank you for the link, Dwayne. I enjoyed it, and agree with the thrust of your thesis. I have never believe Twain was an atheist in the sense of denying an ultimate entity. But, because his theology was so marred by &#8220;freethinking&#8221; and the liberal (pseudo)-Christians by whom he was influenced, his own beliefs bore precious little resemblance to true Christian faith.</p>
2914<p>Doubtless, your book develops your insights even more sharply than this well-composed article. Bravo. Just be on guard that the talent and humor of this pied piper don&#8217;t entice you to follow Twain in his tragic errors.</p>
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