Between Heaven and Hell and the Joys of Daily Mass
Two things today. They may or may not be related. First, today of course is the 50th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy. A lesser known fact: this is also the 50th anniversary of the passing of C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Quite the closing of an age, the death of those three. Dr. Peter Kreeft, WHO IS THE MAN, wrote a book in 1982 about a ficticious conversation between the deceased Kennedy, Lewis and Huxley. Between Heaven and Hell is a short read (about 120 pages) and is well worth your time. Kreeft is an expert at making the difficult intelligable, much like Lewis, and does so delightfully through a dialogue among the orthodox christian, humanist christian and pantheist christian world views—Lewis, Kennedy and Huxley, respectively. It is a fast-paced conversation about the most important things—adding to "the Great Conversation." I read it a couple weeks ago, and I will be reading it again soon. Second, today is the feast day of St. Cecilia, Virgin and Ma...