Lewis wrote nine different “Notes on the Way” columns in Time and Tide between 1940 and 1946. All are in print in various essay collections.
Month: June 2013
Lewis’s Slow Conversion (CSLM-13)
LISTEN TO AUDIO/PODCAST VERSION Many people take their time making important decisions, but you may not believe how long it took C.S. Lewis to go from believing in God to becoming a Christian. It was in the spring or summer of 1929 when Lewis, at the age of 30, to quote his autobiography, “admitted that …
Fact: June 24, 2013
On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was published on this day in 1982.
Quiz: June 24, 2013
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“All right, all right, You needn’t shout. I’m not so deaf as all that. What do you mean by coming here to tell me that nobody’s been killed? Why should anyone have been killed?”
Quote: June 24, 2013
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle
(from Volume 2 on 6/24/1949)
Quiz: June 23, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“You can’t _____ _____ _____ while your eyes are blurred with tears.”
Quote: June 23, 2013
(Screwtape Admits:)
“Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”
The Screwtape Letters – VIII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
Fact: June 23, 2013
Besides Slubgob being mentioned in The Screwtape Letters, there are six other demons names told.
C.S. Lewis Himself (from Mere Christianity)
I’ve previous posted the following, but because of recently repeating my CSL Minutes about Mere Christianity and someone asking about hearing something from it I felt it was easiest to remind everyone about this piece I wrote by repeating it as well. By the way, I’ve taken the audio (which is in public domain) and …
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Quiz: June 22, 2013
What landmark sermon did Lewis preach this month?