Luke Merrell
@lukemerrell.bsky.social
Philosophy | Aesthetics | Liturgy | Books | Doctoral Student @MBTS | MA Philosophy @UMSL | MA Theology @SBTS |THFC 🤍 |
📚🕯️Basement Library updates 🕯️📚
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
July 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📚🕯️Basement Library updates 🕯️📚
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
Current reading stack
June 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Current reading stack
enjoy a tidy space, but I also love little evidences of a lived-in space. So, sometimes I find myself purposely leaving an empty drink can behind to for the experience.
June 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
enjoy a tidy space, but I also love little evidences of a lived-in space. So, sometimes I find myself purposely leaving an empty drink can behind to for the experience.
June 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Coleridge & coffee
June 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Coleridge & coffee
April 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
April 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Austen’s genius in Northanger Abbey is how she teaches us the power of novels to speak truths about our world (a very Lewisian idea) by first allowing us to think that very idea foolish.
February 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Austen’s genius in Northanger Abbey is how she teaches us the power of novels to speak truths about our world (a very Lewisian idea) by first allowing us to think that very idea foolish.
I had a good feeling about this one, and I am so glad the feeling was accurate.
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I had a good feeling about this one, and I am so glad the feeling was accurate.
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
“The human lives in time but [has been] destined to eternity. [God] therefore, I believe, wants them to attend to chiefly two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
February 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“The human lives in time but [has been] destined to eternity. [God] therefore, I believe, wants them to attend to chiefly two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
The writing vibes are immaculate
February 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The writing vibes are immaculate
Minutes before my favorite weekday event.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
February 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Minutes before my favorite weekday event.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
Just discovered the “Have your cake and eat it too” saying goes back at least into the early 1600s.
“The Size” - George Herbert
“The Size” - George Herbert
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just discovered the “Have your cake and eat it too” saying goes back at least into the early 1600s.
“The Size” - George Herbert
“The Size” - George Herbert
Bonus!
2. An unopened “Into the Lantern Waste” by Sarah Sparks
This Album is definitely a treasure to me and is at all times sitting with my Lewis collection in my library.
2. An unopened “Into the Lantern Waste” by Sarah Sparks
This Album is definitely a treasure to me and is at all times sitting with my Lewis collection in my library.
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Bonus!
2. An unopened “Into the Lantern Waste” by Sarah Sparks
This Album is definitely a treasure to me and is at all times sitting with my Lewis collection in my library.
2. An unopened “Into the Lantern Waste” by Sarah Sparks
This Album is definitely a treasure to me and is at all times sitting with my Lewis collection in my library.
Bonus!
1. First edition, first printing “Gaudy Night” by Dorothy Sayers. 1936
1. First edition, first printing “Gaudy Night” by Dorothy Sayers. 1936
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Bonus!
1. First edition, first printing “Gaudy Night” by Dorothy Sayers. 1936
1. First edition, first printing “Gaudy Night” by Dorothy Sayers. 1936
5. First American edition “Out of the Silent Planet.” 1955
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
5. First American edition “Out of the Silent Planet.” 1955
4. First edition, first printing “The Discarded Image” 1964
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
4. First edition, first printing “The Discarded Image” 1964
3. First American edition, first printing “Reflections on the Psalms.” 1958
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
3. First American edition, first printing “Reflections on the Psalms.” 1958
2. First American edition of “The Silver Chair.” 1953
(Love the little Puddleglum on the front.)
(Love the little Puddleglum on the front.)
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
2. First American edition of “The Silver Chair.” 1953
(Love the little Puddleglum on the front.)
(Love the little Puddleglum on the front.)
1. First edition, first printing “Letters of C.S. Lewis.” Compiled by his brother, Warnie Lewis. 1966
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1. First edition, first printing “Letters of C.S. Lewis.” Compiled by his brother, Warnie Lewis. 1966
My modest treasury of rare C.S. Lewis books. 📚 With some bonus items at the end. 🧵
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My modest treasury of rare C.S. Lewis books. 📚 With some bonus items at the end. 🧵
Obsessed with how snow completely changes the landscape. It somehow transports you to another world.
January 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Obsessed with how snow completely changes the landscape. It somehow transports you to another world.
Favorite non-fiction reads of the year
December 29, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Favorite non-fiction reads of the year
Favorite fiction reads of the year.
December 29, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Favorite fiction reads of the year.
Christmas book haul so far
December 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Christmas book haul so far