“[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.”
Work and Prayer
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph; 5/28/1945)
Month: May 2013
Fact: May 29, 2013
“Transposition” is a sermon Lewis preached on 5/28/1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory.
Many Ways to Read Narnia (CSLM-02)
How many orders can you read The Chronicles of Narnia in? Let me count the ways!
If you were alive in the 1950’s when the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis came out you practically had only one way to read them…in the order they were published.
Quote: May 28, 2013
“I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one has a free hand.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle
(from Volume 2 on 5/28/1949)
Fact: May 28, 2013
Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope today (5/28) in 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out 5/12/1947).
Quiz: May 28, 2013
What is Lewis’ wife real first name? (hint it’s not “Joy”)
Speaking of Jack (Will Vaus)
The first interview I ever did for my C.S. Lewis hobby was with Will Vaus about his (then) latest book called Speaking of Jack: A C.S. Lewis Discussion Guide. Vaus, an international speaker, is the author of many books specializing in Lewis and Narnia. Be sure to follow the other links below for additional times …
Quote: May 27, 2013
“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”
The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933)
Quiz: May 27, 2013
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it: “I believe that was the sort of thing I was thinking of…But….I’ve an idea that all those circles and things are rather rot. I don’t think he’d like them.”
Fact: May 27, 2013
“Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper.