C.S. Lewis died on this day forty years ago. His contributions, to both believers and non-believers, still continue to resonate and ring true.

Here's a great quote from the column (and you can read the full NY Times article at A Mind That Grasped Both Heaven & Hell):

"If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next," he wrote in "Mere Christianity," one of his best-known works. "It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."

Hmm.