“None of us can fully escape the blindness of our age, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.” — C.S. Lewis

We live in a contentious time, where it can sometimes seem like our arguments are as noisy as they are shallow. Yet, we possess a great inheritance of wisdom in the Christian tradition that can shake up our present-day perspective and give us deeper roots in richer soil if only we would seek it out. In this monthly series, we’ll take C.S. Lewis’s advice to read the old books, at least two representing a different era. We’ll study great figures from the Christian tradition, like Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Julian of Norwich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, C.S. Lewis and Flannery O’Connor, alongside some insightful writers on present-day questions.