Stephen to Lazarus by C.S. Lewis - Poem for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Fifth Sunday in Easter, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Acts 7:55-60
Stephen to Lazarus
C.S. Lewis
SNIPPET:
But was I the first martyr, who
Gave up no more than life, while you,
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C.S. Lewis was (1898 – 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University . He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for several works of non-fiction Christian apologetics. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien. Both men served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. Lewis was baptized in the Church of Ireland but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32, owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, and he became an "ordinary layman of the Church of England". Lewis's faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. (via Wikipedia).