The American historian George Marsden, in his biography of Mere Christianity, explains that the time slot – 7:45 to 8:00pm precisely – might sound like primetime, but actually Lewis found himself sandwiched between a news broadcast to Nazi-occupied Norway (in Norwegian) and a program of songs from a Welsh cultural festival. The circumstances of that first talk, on Wednesday 6 August 1941, were not overly auspicious. Lewis, at the time an Oxford don almost unknown to the public, stepped up to the microphone at Broadcasting House, the London headquarters of the BBC, to give the first of the wartime broadcasts that would later become the much-loved Mere Christianity. When the book in question was not only an inadvertent classic, but also only inadvertently a book, the plot thickens. And they surely do, if less frequently than the endorsements that burble from dust jackets would imply.īut when many people, across many decades, from many walks of life, and in many countries, say that a certain book was the turning point in their lives – the hinge between before and everything afterwards – it seems worth asking what about that book has been so singularly galvanising. Writers like to believe that books change people’s lives. Andy Crouch on Technology and Humanity Open submenu Close submenu.Bites on the Bible Open submenu Close submenu.Big Questions Open submenu Close submenu.Human Dignity Open submenu Close submenu.For the Love of God Open submenu Close submenu.Youth & Schools Resources Open submenu Close submenu.
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