What animals helped to freed Aslan in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe?
Month: June 2013
Fact: June 6, 2013
The sixth Screwtape letter was published on this day in The Guardian in 1941. Topics include how to “weaken his (patient’s) prayers.”
Quote: June 5, 2013
“I do not feel that one must never say one believes or understands anything: any morning a doctrine I thought I already possessed may blossom into this new reality.”
Letter to Sister Penelope
(from Volume 3 on 6/5/1951)
Retro: June 5th – 11th
This week’s highlights related to Lewis include: his most famous sermon, a first letter to an eventual longtime friend, winning a scholarship and a book related to his professional specialty.
Before the magic of Narnia started in 1950 C.S. Lewis had a magical year
Fact: June 5, 2013
The first known letter that Lewis wrote to Arthur Greeves was on this date in 1914. He wrote so many they filled a book!
Quiz: June 5, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Statements about God are extrapolations from the _____ of ____ _____ which the divine illumination enables us to know.”
Companion to Narnia (CSLM-05)
Since the release of The Chronicles of Narnia movies in 2005, the already popular books have sold even more; leaving some asking what the best book about the series is.
Quiz: June 4, 2013
What do the initials “C. S.” stand for?
Quote: June 4, 2013
(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:)
“Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.”
The Screwtape Letters – V
(first published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941)
Fact: June 4, 2013
On this day in 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.