FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper read by Lewis to the Socratic Club on Nov. 6, 1944. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are taught from childhood to notice how the perfect oak grows from the acorn and to forget that the acorn itself was dropped by a perfect …
CSL Daily 11/05/17
FACT OF THE DAY: After being released in the UK earlier in 1958, Reflections of the Psalms came out in the US the same year on November 5th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience the funniest …
CSL Daily 11/04/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Weight of Glory” was published in the November, 1941 issue of Theology. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the …
CSL Daily 11/03/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters: C.S. Lewis, Don Giovanni Calabria: A Study in Friendship was published on November 1, 1988 and contained 28 letters from Lewis. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly.” …
CSL Daily 11/02/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 2, 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after forty years of …
CSL Daily 11/01/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the topic of what was the 7th BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that was heard on the radio on Nov. 1, 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason …
The Halloween Screwtape Letter!? (Re-Post)
The following is a revised piece from what I shared previously. It was on Oct. 31, 1941 that the 27th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. The following year it came out in the UK in the book The Screwtape Letters (1943 for the US). While there is no material directly related to Halloween in …
Read the full post →“The Halloween Screwtape Letter!? (Re-Post)”
CSL Daily 10/31/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 31, 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us in the …
CSL Daily 10/30/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Jane Austen” was published in the October, 1954 issue of Essays in Criticism. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible.” A Note on Jane Austen (Published in the October, …
CSL Daily 10/29/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 29, 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.” The Great …