ILL: For many years British author C.S. Lewis had such a great difficulty in becoming a Christian. Religion in his culture was “faith without power”. A blind religion that required learning without questioning and without a personal experience with the risen Savior. According to his brother Warren, his conversion was "no sudden plunge into a new life, but rather a slow, steady convalescence from a deep-seated spiritual illness - an illness that had its origins in his childhood, in the dry husks of religion offered by the semi-political churchgoings of Ulster, and the similar dull emptiness of compulsory church during our school days." Our Daily Bread, March 15, 1994.