C.S. Lewis
(1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.
Lewis wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. C. S. Lewis’s most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics in The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.
-
Comfort as Formation: How Modern Life Trains Us Away from Resistance

Modern comfort does more than make life easier. It quietly forms what we expect, avoid, and reach for first. This CTK essay explores how phones, algorithms, convenience, and constant stimulation train us away from resistance, and why recovered attention, chosen friction, and courage matter in an age of ease. Continue reading
-
The Hardiness Effect: Choosing the Harder Road in an Age of Comfort

A CTK-style review of Dr. Paul Taylor’s The Hardiness Effect, exploring how modern comfort trains fragility, how stress can build hardiness, and why the harder road still matters. Blending science, Stoic wisdom, personal reflection, and spiritual insight, this essay treats Taylor’s book as a field guide for resistance. Continue reading
-
Sunday Evening Collective ~ December 14th Edition

Advent Week Three turns toward joy that is quiet, durable, and near. Not cheer manufactured, but longing awakened. Through Lewis, Buechner, and song, this edition invites attentive waiting, shared beginnings, and embodied notice. Joy arrives as gift, woven into ordinary moments, pointing beyond itself toward grace, hope, and home, together. Continue reading
-
Advent Week Two: The Quiet Center of Peace

Advent peace is not escape but strength. It grows in small moments of quiet and is carried into the noise of real life. In Week Two we learn to breathe slower, stand steadier, and walk with the One who brings order to our chaos. Peace becomes the center we carry. Continue reading
-
Sunday Evening Collective ~ November 30th Edition

This week we slow our pace and pay attention to what is already good. Through gratitude, honest reflection, and small moments outdoors, we steady ourselves for Thanksgiving week. Grace is present in the ordinary. Choose one simple act of gratitude and let it shape the days ahead. Continue reading
-
Christmas Series | Advent Week 1 – Hope

Hope begins in the dim places where vision is limited and longing rises. Advent invites us to stand in the fog without fear and to trust the small signs of light that steady the heart. Hope leans forward, attentive to the horizon where morning quietly begins. Continue reading
-
Agency: Where Franklin’s Thirteen Virtues Become a Directed Life

Agency is the hidden strength beneath every virtue, the power to direct your life rather than drift through it. After thirteen weeks of practiced discipline, this is the turning point: intention, responsibility, discipline, courage, and self-government rising into a directed life. Agency is yours. Use it with purpose. Continue reading

Advent Adventure Agency Albums Andrew Huberman Apostle James Apostle Paul Aristotle Artificial intelligence Art of Manliness Benjamin Franklin Books Breathing C.S. Lewis Challenges Character Christianity Christmas Courage Creativity Culture Desert Island Music Discipline Dr. Paul Taylor Emerson Epictetus Failure Faith Focus Frederick Buechner G.K. Chesterton Goals God Goethe Goodreads Gratitude Habit Hammock Health & Fitness History Honor Hope Humility Industry Interviews J.R.R. Tolkien James Clear Jesus John Eldredge John Mark Comer Justice Laird Hamilton Leadership Love Manliness Marcus Aurelius Mark Twain Mental Toughness Mindfulness Money Music Music 80’s Music 1980 Music 1981 Music 1987 Non-fiction Oliver Wendell Holmes Order Orison Swett Marden Oswald Chambers Peace Personal Development Peter Attia Prophet Isaiah Quotes Recovery Resolution Resurrection Band Rick Rubin Routines & Rituals Saint Augustine Saint Thomas Aquinas Self-Reliance Seneca Silence Spiritual Formation T. S. Elliot Temperance The Choir Theodore Roosevelt The Police Thomas A Kempis Tim Ferriss Training U2 Virtue Willpower Winston Churchill WODs Writers