FACT OF THE DAY: “Delinquents in the Snow” is an article Lewis wrote that was published today (Dec. 7) in 1957 in Time and Tide. It’s available in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Not all kinds of peace are compatible with all kinds of goodwill, nor do all those …
CSL Daily 12/06
FACT OF THE DAY: On Dec. 4, 1962 an informal conversation between Lewis, Kingsley Amis and Brian Aldiss was recorded and later published as “Unreal Estates.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book’s no good to me until I’ve read it two or three times.” Unreal Estates (First recorded on 12/4/62 and later …
For the Sake of the Story (Dr. Donald T. Williams) 2016r
The following is the main part of an inaugural lecture from Dr. Donald T. Williams called “For the Sake of the Story: Doctrine and Discernment in Reading C.S. Lewis.” Dr. Williams is a Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities and Natural Sciences Department at Toccoa Falls College in Northeast Georgia. This audio is …
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CSL Daily 12/05
FACT OF THE DAY: “Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus” is a satirical piece by Lewis published in the December 4, 1954 issue of Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the …
CSL Daily 12/04
FACT OF THE DAY: Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published today (Dec. 4) in 1969. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Bible thus considered, for good or ill, as a single book, has been read for almost every purpose more diligently than for literary pleasure.” The Literary Impact of …
(CCSLQ-30) – Be Weird, Be Random
UPDATED (9/8/18) – The Misquotable C.S. Lewis is my book that examines 75 quotations attributed to Lewis that I caution you not to share. Some are falsely attributed to him, others are paraphrases of his words, and a few have context issues. Don’t share a quote attributed to Lewis unless you can confirm he wrote it and the meaning …
CSL Daily 12/03
FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today (Dec. 3) in 1969. The UK version came out March 4, 1968. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so …
CSL Daily 12/02
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures today (Dec. 2) in 1941 on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are …
CSL Daily 12/01
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (Dec. 1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 3 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider …
CSL Daily 11/30
FACT OF THE DAY: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (Nov. 30) in the US in 1970. It was edited by Walter Hooper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think …