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Words to Live by: A Guide for the Merely Christian is unavailable, but you can change that!

C. S. Lewis is a beloved writer and thinker and arguably the most important Christian intellectual of the twentieth century. His groundbreaking children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia, lucid nonfiction titles such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, and thought—provoking fiction, including The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce, have become trusted companions for millions of...

Charity—giving to the poor—is an essential part of Christian morality.… Some people nowadays say that charity ought to be unnecessary and that instead of giving to the poor we ought to be producing a society in which there were no poor to give to. They may be quite right in saying that we ought to produce that kind of society. But if anyone thinks that, as a consequence, you can stop giving in the meantime, then he has parted company with all Christian morality. I do not believe one can
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