FACT OF THE DAY:
The U.K. edition of Letters to an American Lady was published in June, 1969 (it was first published in the U.S. on 12/19/1967).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/10/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Whom did Lewis start a life-long correspondence with sometime this month in what year?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Released today (6/9) in 1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. It collects various essays by Lewis on the specialized topic.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“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
(Republished in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature on 6/9/1966)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who were the crew of the Dawn Treader searching for?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Weight of Glory,” Lewis’s most famous sermon was preached on this day (6/8) in 1941 at St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself.”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Statements about God are extrapolations from the _____ of ____ _____ which the divine illumination enables us to know.”
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In this show I’m sharing a 20 minute academic paper I presented at Taylor University that was part of the 9th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends and given on Friday, May 30, 2014. The presentation I did was on quotations falsely attributed to Lewis. It was called “What Lewis NEVER Wrote.” The handout is available when you follow the link below to listen to the podcast.
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Morte D’Arthur” by Lewis was published today (6/7) in 1947 in the Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It does one good to see the fine side of people we’ve always seen the worst of. ”
Letter to Arthur Greeves 6/7/1930
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
The first book that was a collection of essays edited by Walter Hooper came out this month…what was it?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The sixth Screwtape letter was published on this day (6/6) in The Guardian in 1941. Topics include how to “weaken his (patient’s) prayers.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Boasts:) “There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy [i.e. God].”
The Screwtape Letters VI
(Published in The Guardian on 6/6/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
To whom did Lewis dedicate Out of the Silent Planet?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The first known letter that Lewis wrote to Arthur Greeves was on this date (6/5) in 1914. He wrote so many they filled a book!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I do not feel that one must never say one believes or understands anything: any morning a doctrine I thought I already possessed may blossom into this new reality…”
Letter to Sister Penelope 6/5/1951
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What was Lewis’s response when a girl asked her about “Aslan’s other name?”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (6/4) in 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.”
The Screwtape Letters V
(Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the ______ _______ ______ ______ ______ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote to Hila Newman, an eleven-year-old, on this date (6/3) in 1953 giving her clues about “Aslan’s other name”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all born in.”
Letter to Keith Masson 6/3/1956
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What decision about his professional life that involved a major change did Lewis make sometime this month in what year?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.”
Letter to Owen Barfield 6/2/1940
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the first action of Prince Rilian in The Silver Chair when he is free of his enchantment?
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