FACT OF THE DAY: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature was released June 9, 1966. It collects various essays by Lewis on the specialized topic. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human soul is not the seeker but the sought: it is God who seeks, who descends from the other world to find and heal …
CSL Daily 06/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Weight of Glory,” Lewis’s most famous sermon was preached on June 8, 1941 at St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford. Hear a podcast with a variety of guests that celebrates it. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an …
[PODCAST] The Faun’s Bookshelf (Dr. Charlie Starr)
The Faun’s Bookshelf is an interesting title that explores, as part of the subtitle reveals, “Why Myth Matters.” Dr. Charlie Starr, the author, uses books C.S. Lewis mentions on Mr. Tumnus’s bookshelf as the framework to examine what myth means and how it teaches us about reality. This interviewed was recorded on the campus of Taylor University …
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CSL Daily 06/07/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Morte Darthur” by Lewis was a book review of The Works of Sir Thomas Malory published on June 7, 1947 in The Times Literary Supplement. It was reprinted in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It does one good to see the fine side of people we’ve …
CSL Daily 06/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth Screwtape letter was published on June 6, 1941 in The Guardian. Topics include how to “weaken his (patient’s) prayers.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy [i.e. God].” The Screwtape Letters VI (Published in The …
CSL Daily 06/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The first known letter that Lewis wrote to Arthur Greeves was on June 5, 1914. He wrote so many they filled a book! – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I now feel that one must never say one believes or understands anything: any morning a doctrine I thought I already …
CSL Daily 06/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On June 4, 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.” The Screwtape Letters V (Published …
CSL Daily 06/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Hila Newman, an eleven-year-old, on June 3, 1953 giving her clues about “Aslan’s other name.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all born in.” …
CSL Daily 06/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly …
CSL Daily 06/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Is History Bunk? by Lewis was first published June 1, 1957 in The Cambridge Review. It’s reprinted in Present Concerns. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There will always be those who, on discovering that history cannot really be turned to much practical account, will pronounce history to be Bunk.” Is History …