CSL Daily 10/10/17

FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 10, 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well …

CSL Daily 10/09/17

FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men …

CSL Daily 10/07/17

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on Oct. 7, 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.” Preface to English Literature in the …

CSL Daily 10/06/17

FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published on Oct. 6, 1944 in Church of England Newspaper. It was adapted in the book Miracles. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to …

CSL Daily 10/03/17

FACT OF THE DAY: The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 3, 1941 in The Guardian. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the …

CSL Daily 10/02/17

FACT OF THE DAY: Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’ views on The Hobbit was published on Oct. 2, 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and …