FACT OF THE DAY:

The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given today (10/11) in 1942.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.”

Sexual Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/11/1942; Chapter Five from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book that is a part of Mere Christianity was published this month (in what year)?

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: While an unsigned review at the time, on October 2, 1937, The Times Literary Supplement published Lewis’s review of The Hobbit.