If you have read a variety of writings from Lewis, Tolkien and their friends Charles Williams and Owen Barfield, then you know they had more than a passing interest in King Arthur. In the following podcast learn about a new book, edited by Sørina Higgins that explores the latest viewpoints on their Arthurian literature. This massive …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S. on February 16, 1943, but was released in the UK in Feb. 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things …
FACT OF THE DAY: The final radio talk from the second BBC series was given on February 15, 1942. It is now known as “The Practical Conclusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be …
FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published for the first time in the US on February 14, 1963, after being released in the UK on 9/29/1961. Also paperbacks of The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity were released on February 14, 1955) in the UK. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but …
FACT OF THE DAY: In February 1963 “Onward Christian Spacemen” was published in Show. Lewis disliked the title and it is now known as “The Seeing Eye.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God…is related to the universe more as an author is related to a play than as one object in the universe is …
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Malcolm came out in the US on February 12, 1964. It had been released in the UK at the end of the previous month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this everyday …
The following is part of a series exploring quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis that are questionable for one reason or another. I’ve collected and expanded this material in a book (THE MISQUOTABLE C.S. LEWIS, available from the publisher, Amazon, and via Google Books). That book examines 75 quotations, and so it has information not yet posted here. I’m continuing …
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on the BBC on February 11, 1949 on “The Novels of Charles Williams.” It was recorded and is also in On Stories. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s …
FACT OF THE DAY: The World’s Last Night collection of essays book was first published on February 10, 1960. Lewis also gave a talk now known as “Membership” today in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.” Membership (Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found in The …
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters (book) was first published in the UK on this date (2/9) in 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and …
