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Doctor Who “The Giggle” Reminds Us of Home

We need a home that calms our restlessness and evokes wonder.

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Aaron Earls
Dec 11, 2023
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“Joy is the serious business of heaven,” C.S. Lewis wrote in Letters to Malcolm. We anticipate the great inversion. In this world, games and play are frivolous, but one day, Lewis tells us, games find their true home and play becomes the point.

If we try to make that reality too soon, however, we unleash chaos. Only in the world to come can we find “the …

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