CS Lewis continues to inspire others nearly sixty years after his death. During the Kingdom Bound Music Festival in Clinton, IA, Christian gospel singer Jordan Feliz discussed the inspiration for his song, “Another Way” on his album, “Say It.” “It stems from a quote from a guy named C.S. Lewis. He says this: If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that [we] were made for another world,” Feliz said of the inspiration behind the song. The song goes, “It’s like my soul’s already missing / A place I’ve never seen or heard / And the only explanation must be / Must be / I’m from another world.”

The quote Feliz referenced is from CS Lewis’s popular book, “Mere Christianity,” which was adapted from a series of radio talks he made between 1941 to 1944. Lewis, perhaps best known for his “Chronicles of Narnia” series, was also a prolific apologist and theologian. Having come to Christ as an adult, his apologetic work focused on many concerns people struggle with when they face the apparent impracticalities of accepting Christ. Lewis addressed the internal dissatisfaction people have in the material world writing, “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

Feliz stated that the song was a late addition to his album. “It felt like something was missing from this [album], and I wasn’t quite sure what it was yet.” He and a friend of his ended up writing what Feliz called a “poem” in the back of their tour bus. Later, Feliz and others worked up the poem into the song “Another Way.” When it was completed, Feliz knew it was the missing piece to his album.

The song deals with a sense of longing that cannot quite be identified and can only be resolved through faith. In a 2020 interview with the Christian Post while he was still working on “Say It,” Feliz talked about the difficulties that relying on faith can present. “There are always going to be questions that nobody has the answers to. And what I tell people who are struggling is, that’s why it’s called faith. That is why it’s [not] called fact…Can we somehow prove it at a factual level for all the scientists out there? No, it’s all faith-driven.” He continued to discuss his faith in pursuing his music career, saying, “I know, for a fact in my heart that Jesus called my wife and I out here for me to start a ministry and to start performing and elevating the name of Jesus every day. Now, can I sit there and prove that I know? It’s all just faith. That is what this is, it’s believing in something that you can’t see.”