FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (12/24) in 1918 Lewis was demobilized from the army after being discharged from the hospital.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The degraded commercialism of our minds is quite as much its result as its cause.”
Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
On Christmas Eve in 1956 readers of The Times learn what surprising thing about Lewis?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Good Work and Good Works” by Lewis was published in the Christmas 1959 issue of Good Work (formerly Catholic Art Quarterly).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The apostle says every one must not only work but work to produce what is ‘good.'”
Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What helpful thing does Lord Bern do and in which Narnia book does he do it?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII” was published today (12/22) in 1944 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII
(Published in The Guardian on 12/22/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“Badness is only ____ _____ .”
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Highlights for the final third of December (21st – 31st) include: An essay about happiness, a special preview of a forthcoming book and two more installments of the eventual The Great Divorce.
Lewis had articles published in a large variety of places during his life. The final shorter work he wrote came out in The Saturday Evening Post less than a month after his death. “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” first appeared in their combined December 21-28, 1963 edition. The only other essay he wrote for them was the encore Screwtape piece mentioned last time. This article specifically attacks sexual happiness and was written at the invitation of the editor, Thomas Congdon. It begins with Lewis describing a comment by someone he calls “Clare” that defended the actions of others by stating “they have a right to happiness.”
FACT OF THE DAY:
“We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for your father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic.”
We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post 12/21-28/1963)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What non-fiction book did Lewis write that was not credited to him until after his death?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Letters to an American Lady was first released on December 19, 1967 and at the time the name of the lady wasn’t revealed.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even ten per cent of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?”
Letters to an American Lady – 8/1/1953
(Book was published on 12/19/1967)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
To whom are The Screwtape Letters written?To whom are The Screwtape Letters written?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (12/19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning.”
Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post on 12/19/1959)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book took Lewis the shortest time to complete and how long was it?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s review of A Lectionary of Christian Prose from the Second Century to the Twentieth Century was published in Theology, December ’39.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers? If the worst comes to the worst I’d sooner give them money for nothing and write it off as a charity.”
What Christmas Means to Me
(Published in Twentieth Century; December, 1957)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote: (five words):
“All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be ______ ____ _____ _____ _______ .”
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The following is a special interview recorded 12/16/13 with both screenwriters from JACK & TOLLERS, Darren Jacobs and Dr. Louis Markos. The focus of the show today is more on information about the screenplay itself and what you can expect to see in the movie.
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“What Christmas Means to Me” was published in the December, 1957 issue of Twentieth Century magazine.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has been forced upon us by the shopkeepers.”
What Christmas Means to Me
(Published in Twentieth Century; December, 1957)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What speech did Lewis give this month (in what year) at King’s College?
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