Here’s the fourth regular show from my 90 second YouTube channel. The purpose is to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! First BBC Radio Talk by C.S. Lewis (August 6, 1941) Mere Christianity is, after the Narnia …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work.” Making and Begetting (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/22/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Making and Begetting,” the first of the 4th BBC radio series …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be like or what we should have expected it to be like.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final radio talk from the …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.” The Perfect Penitent (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/8/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It’s now available …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can shut [Jesus] up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Known as “The …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.” The Invasion (Second Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/18/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Later known as “The Invasion,” Lewis’s second talk from his second BBC radio series was given on January 18, 1942. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God.” What Christians Believe (First Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/11/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 11, 1942 Lewis …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Allegory frustrates itself the moment the author starts doing what could equally well be done in a straight sermon or treatise. It is a valid form only so long as it is doing what could not be done at all, or done so well, in any other way.” The Vision …
