A few days ago, someone asked me what my favorite book was. More specifically they asked me which book I had read that had had the most profound impact on my life. My answer to this question was simple, yet hard all at the same time. I’m often really, really into the book that I’m currently reading; and this makes it hard for me to look back with much perspective on what I read years ago. However, I had to say that the book that had the most profound influence on my meager existence was Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis.
I know that this book is considered a classic by many Christians, and I can’t say that I fully accept 100% of C.S. Lewis’ philosophies and thoughts; but this book is superb. I’ve heard of numerous people coming to an intellectual understanding of Christianity after reading this book.

I myself read it after having been involved in collegiate campus ministry for a couple of years. I had just graduated from college, and had gotten married a month after graduation. I had graduated myself out of a ministry position, and was planning my next move. I read Mere Christianity because someone bought it for me two years earlier, (yes it took me 2 years to get to it.) This book completely changed my perspective on why I believe what I believe. I finally challenged me to think for myself, and to challenge my own beliefs about the way God had created me. I’ve read it 4 times since, I think….

Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis’s forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books — The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality — Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity’s many denominations, C. S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that “at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice.”