RETROSPECT: March 1st – 11th

Highlights for the first third of March (1st – 11th) include: First book collecting quotations and shorter passages, how Charles Williams became a friend and a former student previews The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Less than five years after C.S. Lewis died a collection containing brief excerpts from a wide range of his writings came out on the 4th of March in 1968. A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis would be the first of many books featuring quotations or shorter selections. This debut work was edited by Clyde S. Kilby, the person who began what we know today as The Marion E. Wade Center. The book is arranged into ten major sections and nearly all of those divisions are further divided into sub-themes.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 1st

FACT OF THE DAY:

Of Lewis’s two pre-Christian books of poetry, only Dymer was republished during his lifetime.
– – –

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The one really adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community.”

The Three-Personal God
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44)

– – –

QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote a preface to Philip’s Letters to Young Churches in 1947. What is the title given to it when it appeared in a collection with other of Lewis’ essays?
(Click “Read More” to SEE Answer)