Huxley, Kennedy, and Lewis in Eternity (2 Corinthians 5:10)

Every generation seems to have a defining date. For the Boomer generation, that date is Friday, November 22, 1963—the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. What is less known, perhaps, is that two other remarkable persons died that same day, too—Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis. Huxley was an English author, philosopher, and satirist, writing nearly 50 books and a wide range of essays, narratives, and poems. He was into science, eastern mysticism, universalism, and psychedelic drugs. Lewis was an English literature professor and an Anglican lay theologian. He is best known for being a persuasive apologist for the Christian faith, writing such works as Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Problem of Pain. Without pronouncing final sentence on any of these individuals, Dr. Schwenk speculates as to what kind of reception each man may have received when he stepped into eternity and stood at the pearly gates on that fateful day in November 1963. It’s a day that’s coming for all of us, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10).