[PODCAST] 2019 Inklings Weekend in Montreat

Inklings Weekend is soon approaching….it’s Friday, April 5th until Sunday, April 7th in Montreat, NC at Montreat College (near Black Mountain). Dr. Hal Poe and Dr. Don King are my guests for this interview about the event. The theme for 2019 is “Jack and Warnie: Brothers and Friends.” Both Dr. Poe and Dr. King have been …

CSL Daily 01/22/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted us all through.” On Obstinacy In Belief (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another Theme …

CSL Daily 01/21/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” The Weight of Glory (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Prudery and Philology” was published on January 21, 1955 in The Spectator.  It …

CSL Daily 01/20/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.” Letter to Mary Neylan (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/20/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the …

CSL Daily 01/19/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI (Published in The Guardian on 1/19/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published January 19, 1945; it covered the first quarter of chapter …

CSL Daily 01/18/19

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.” The Invasion (Second Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/18/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Later known as “The Invasion,” Lewis’s second talk from his second BBC radio series was given on January 18, 1942. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …

CSL Daily 01/17/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of properly trained parrots would serve as well.” The Efficacy of Prayer (Published in the January, 1959 issue of The Atlantic Monthly) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s “The Efficacy of Prayer” essay appeared in the January issue of The Atlantic Monthly in 1959. …

CSL Daily 01/16/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Romantics” is a poem that …