FACT OF THE DAY: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published on May 28, 1985. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…one road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933)
CSL Daily 5/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published on May 25, 1933. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter to …
CSL Daily 5/24/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine on May 24, 1945). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941) …
CSL Daily 5/23/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published May 23, 1941 in The Guardian. It deal with “the painful subject of prayer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping …
CSL Daily 5/22/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on May 21, 1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936)
CSL Daily 5/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Allegory of Love was published on May 21, 1936. It was Lewis’ first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The function of allegory is not to hide but to reveal, and it is properly used only for that which cannot be said, or so well said, in …
(CMCSL-2) – Lewis Had a Serious Crisis of Faith After Losing a Debate to Anscombe
This is part of an occasional series exploring questionable claims about the life or writings of C.S. Lewis. For a list of the topics either already explored or planned to be examined you can visit the introduction to this series. – There’s no denying that C.S. Lewis’ most original work in the 1950’s …
CSL Daily 5/20/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” on May 20, 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” Religion …
CSL Daily 5/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: What the Bird Said Early in the Year is a revised poem first published on May 19, 1938 as Chanson D’Aventure in The Oxford Magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all …
Writing Tips from Lewis and Tolkien (King and Poe)
What can a person learn about how to improve one’s writing from C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien? That was the subject Dr. Don King and Dr. Hal Poe addressed in a session I moderated to kick off a Creative Writing Festival held for high school students at Montreat College on March 31, 2017. This was held …
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