FACT OF THE DAY: “Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at …
Month: May 2016
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #26
Marvel Comics came out with a graphic novel edition of The Screwtape Letters in 1994. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About Jack. Also you …
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CSL Daily 5/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published this month (5/28) in 1985. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…one road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933)
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #25
A major theme of “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is how democracy can be twisted to benefit Hell’s purposes. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About …
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CSL Daily 5/25
FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published 83 years ago today (5/25/33). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #24
The essay “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” was published less than five years before Lewis died. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About Jack. Also you …
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CSL Daily 5/24
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine today (5/24) in 1945). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on …
18r Essay Chat – On Three Ways of Writing for Children (Brenton Dickieson)
This week is the final “catch-up” of a previous essay chat that hadn’t yet been re-released since changing podcast hosting to Podbean in late 2014. In the early 1950’s Lewis began releasing a series of books that he is most associated with now. Lewis gave a talk in 1952 when less than half of his …
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75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #23
The fame from The Screwtape Letters led to Lewis being on the cover of Time magazine on September 8, 1947. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, …
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CSL Daily 5/23
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published today (5/23) in 1941 in The Guardian. It deal with “the painful subject of prayer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done …