FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was president of the Oxford Socratic Club from it’s founding (1942) until 1955 (when he started teaching at Cambridge). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.’” Letter …
Month: January 2017
CSL Daily 1/30/17
FACT OF THE DAY: First paperback edition of The Last Battle came out on January 30, 1964. It was published as ‘Puffin Books’ by Penguin Books Ltd. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One cannot be too careful: one must try to hold fast to one’s duties (I wish I did) which are the …
CSL Daily 1/29/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on January 29, 1956. It was preached at Evernsong at Magdalene College. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even …
CSL Daily 1/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Abolition of Man (released in early January, 1944) is the book Lewis wrote that he claimed addressed “a ‘serious’ point” presented in That Hideous Strength. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to ask God with factious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality …
CSL Daily 1/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer was published January 27, 1964; one of the last books Lewis prepared before his death. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Published on 1/27/1964)
200 Seconds in Hell with C.S. Lewis Episode 3
Practicing humility can be a very humbling experience, one that might just lead to pride! At least that’s what Wormwood is partly told he should try to make happen with his patient in The Screwtape Letters. In this third episode of “200 Seconds in Hell with C.S. Lewis” you’ll be reminded about some of the ways the devils …
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CSL Daily 1/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The first meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club was on January 26, 1942. Lewis was the 1st president. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if …
CSL Daily 1/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism,” published in Christian Reflections on January 23, 1967 was later re-titled as “Fern-seed and Elephants.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing is certainly right, then of course it follows that nothing is certainly wrong.” De Futilitate (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967)
CSL Daily 1/24/17
FACT OF THE DAY: All the letters of the alphabet are used for names of the characters in Narnia except one, none of them start with the letter “x.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in …
America Discovers C. S. Lewis (Dr. K. Alan Snyder)
If you live in the United States, then you are probably not too surprised to know that a lot of people here know about C.S. Lewis. Did you know it was first an American who helped to tell the world about him? That’s just a small part of what you’ll find in a book called America …
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