I've already denied reading Amy Welborn, yet here I am with something else from her blog:

"Communion with the saints", subtitled "Richard J. Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, has been thinking about saints."

He's actually somewhat persuaded by a tired apologetic analogy, in his own words:

"My Catholic dialogue partner made some points that had never occurred to me. Properly understood, he argued, praying to a saint in heaven is nothing more than a conversation with another Christian, in which the person on earth is asking the saint to intercede with God on his or her behalf."

Forget the practical business of how to make yourself heard (a legitimate objection).

However, his ultimate reason for sticking to his Protestant convictions rings hollow (I almost typed "hallow"!):

"Their pictures show them with halos around their heads, and when you look into the eyes on their statues you get the sense—at least I do—that you are in the presence of a different sort of being."

The "otherness" of the saints weirds him out, but he's comfortable approaching the Throne of the God of the Universe? Huh? Aren't the saints billed as the "approachable ones", for times when the faithful are too intimidated or too ashamed to come directly before the Almighty?

Protestant humility and hubris are just so jumbled.

A couple of comments at "open book" invoke Lewis, including an allusion to a criticism from Letters to Malcolm¹ that I found in full:

"My grandfather, I'm told, used to say that he 'looked forward to having some very interesting conversations with St. Paul when he got to heaven.' Two clerical gentlemen talking at ease in a club!

It never seemed to cross his mind that an encounter with St. Paul might be rather an overwhelming experience even for an Evangelical clergyman of good family. But when Dante saw the great apostles in heaven they affected him like mountains. There's lots to be said against devotions to saints; but at least they keep on reminding us that we are very small people compared with them. How much smaller before their Master."

Amen, amen to that. I've never got that, hobnobbing in heaven. That, and rewards. (How can they both be right?) That's why we need the classics².

¹ I didn't know Malcolm was fictitious! Was he CofS?! YA reason to love Lewis.

² "We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books." - C. S. Lewis