FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on June 22, 1950. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.” …
Month: June 2017
CSL Daily 6/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from Lewis was published in the June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original …
Mere Christians (Andrew Lazo, co-editor)
Here’s another interview that was first released back in 2012 and not yet shared again since my audio hosting was moved to Podbean in late 2014. Thus, this is something most of you has likely not heard before now. This podcast is with Andrew Lazo and is about a book he co-edited, MERE CHRISTIANS: Inspiring Stories …
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CSL Daily 6/20/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian on June 20, 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not …
CSL Daily 6/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, …
CSL Daily 6/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis came out on June 18, 1992. It was republished as C.S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, …
CSL Daily 6/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published on June 17, 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the …
CSL Daily 6/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s brother, Warren “Warnie” Hamilton Lewis was born on June 16, 1895. He wrote books on French History. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy …
CSL Daily 6/15/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on June 15, 1925 and lasted nearly three decades. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and …
CSL Daily 6/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on the 14th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached …