What book got the notice of someone from the BBC that lead to an invitation to Lewis’s debut on the radio that was fhis month?
Month: August 2013
Quote: August 3, 2013
“I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we must not use an apostle’s teaching to contradict that of Our Lord.”
Letter to Mrs. Emily Mclay
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/3/1953)
Fact: August 3, 2013
“On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today.
Fact: August 2, 2013
Lewis wrote nearly 300 letters to Arthur Greeves over the span of about 50 years.
Quote: August 2, 2013
“God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.”
Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/2/1954)
Quiz: August 2, 2013
Which of Lewis’s books mentions the place “House of Corrections for Incompetent Tempters?”
Quote: August 1, 2013
“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware of that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Quiz: August 1, 2013
Who came up with the name “The Chronicles of Narnia” for the entire series of books?
Fact: August 1, 2013
Today in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters.