Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on this day in 1950.
Month: June 2013
Quote: June 22, 2013
“It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle
(from Volume 2 on 6/22/1948)
Mere Christianity History, Part 2 (CSLM-12)
LISTEN TO AUDIO/PODCAST VERSION Last time I gave you some background information about how Mere Christianity began as radio broadcasts and next became a series of three books. Would you believe there is a backstory to this backstory? C.S. Lewis never wanted to be on the radio before he was asked to do a …
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Quiz: June 21, 2013
What are Hrossa in Out of the Silent Planet?
Quote: June 21, 2013
“Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.”
The Weight of Glory
(First preached as a sermon on 6/8/1941)
Fact: June 21, 2013
The planet named “Perelandra” is Venus and Earth is know as “Thulcandra.”
Quote: June 20, 2013
(Screwtape Admits:)
“One must face the fact that all the talk about His [i.e., God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth.”
The Screwtape Letters – VIII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
Retro: June 20th – 30th
Highlights in Lewis’s life for this time frame are: Sharing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his close friends four months before it was published, being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity and Screwtape talking about the “law of Undulation.”
As you may recall, Lewis met frequently with a group of friends called the Inklings. They gathered at
Quiz: June 20, 2013
Puddleglum is what type of creature?
Fact: June 20, 2013
The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian today in 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob.