“If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.”
The Weight of Glory
(First preached as a sermon on 6/8/1941)
Month: June 2013
Fact: June 11, 2013
An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest.
Quiz: June 11, 2013
What decision about his professional life that involved a major change did Lewis make sometime this month in what year?
Life of C.S. Lewis (Charlie Starr)
Two months ago (April 2013) Dr. Charlie Starr came to Morgantown, WV as a guest speaker to kick-off the start of the C.S. Lewis Society of Morgantown. Dr. Starr teaches English, Humanities, and Film at Kentucky Christian University and is the author of Light: C.S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story. The following is the main …
Quote: June 10, 2013
“I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Volume 3 on 6/10/1952)
Fact: June 10, 2013
Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford in June, 1923.
Quiz: June 10, 2013
What was Lewis’s response when a girl asked her about “Aslan’s other name?”
Quote: June 9, 2013
“The human soul is not the seeker but the sought: it is God who seeks, who descends from the other world to find and heal Man; the parable about the Good Shepherd looking for and finding the lost sheep sums it up.”
Edmund Spenser, 1552–99
(Published 6/9/1966 in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature)
Fact: June 9, 2013
Released today in 1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. It collects various essays by Lewis on the specialized topic.
Quiz: June 9, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done”, and those to whom God says, in the end, _______ _______ ______ ______ .”