“What I want is a straight fight between the new morality and that of the law.”
Sex in Literature
(Published 9/30/1962 in The Sunday Telegraph)
Month: September 2013
FACT: September 30, 2013
On this date in 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph.
QUIZ: September 30, 2013
What book from the Narnia series was published in March of 1956?
FACT: September 29, 2013
A Grief Observed was published today in 1961, but it wasn’t until after his death that it was attributed to Lewis.
QUOTE: September 29, 2013
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
A Grief Observed
(Published 9/29/1961)
QUIZ: September 29, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, _____ _____ . Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
QUIZ: September 28, 2013
What book that was a collection of shorter titles by Lewis was published this month in his lifetime?
QUOTE: September 28, 2013
“[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT: September 28, 2013
The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh.
QUOTE: September 27, 2013
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)