• Introduction by Walter Hooper
  Walter Hooper
  Walter McGehee Hooper is a trustee and literary advisor of the estate of C.S. Lewis. Born in Reidsville, North Carolina, U.S., he earned an M.A. in education and was an instructor in English at the University of Kentucky in the early 1960s. As a visitor to England, he served briefly as Lewis's...
  
  , Editor
• Preface to the original edition by C. S. Lewis: "This book contains a selection of the too numerous addresses which I was induced to give during the late war and the years that immediately followed it."

1. "The Weight of Glory" - First given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, June 8, 1941
2. "Learning in War-Time" - Given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, October 22, 1939
3. "Why I am not a Pacifist" - Talk, "given to a pacifist society at Oxford sometime in 1940", from the introduction.
4. "Transposition" - Given in the Chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford, May 28, 1944.
5. "Is Theology Poetry?" - Presented to the Oxford University Socratic Club, November 6, 1944
6. "The Inner Ring" - This was the "Commemoration Oration" given at King's College, University of London, December 14, 1944
7. "Membership" - Read to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius, Oxford, February 10, 1945
8. "On Forgiveness" - Written for Father Patrick Kevin Irwin (1907-1965) and sent to him, August 28, 1947. First Published in "Fern-seed and Elephants and Other Essays on Christianity" by C. S. Lewis.
9. "A Slip of the Tongue" - Given at the Chapel of Magdalene College, Cambridge, January 29, 1956. This was the last sermon preached by C. S. Lewis.

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