Fertilizing Christian Reunion

I feel that whenever two members of different communions succeed in sharing the spiritual life so far as they can now share it, and are thus forced to regard each other as Christians, they are really helping on re-union by producing the conditions without which official reunion would be quite barren. I feel sure that this is the layman’s chief contribution to the task, and some of us here are being enabled to perform it.

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“Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths, 29 April 1938,” in The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Vol. II, ed. Walter Hooper (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004), 224.