Previously I did a podcast featuring a variety of guest reflecting on The Screwtape Letters. I’m doing that again today with six more individuals. The reason for this, in addition to The Screwtape Letters being my favorite book from Lewis, is the fact that it was 75 years ago this month (July) that Lewis wrote the original preface …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote his preface to the first edition of The Screwtape Letters on this day (7/5) in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, …
FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published today (7/4) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape commenting on the patient faking cynical and skeptical attitudes): “All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” The Screwtape Letters X (Published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941)
FACT OF THE DAY: The Second Edition of Studies in Words was released this month (July 6th) in 1967 with three new words/chapters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In general…the poet’s route to our emotions lies through our imaginations.” Studies in Words, 2nd Edition (Published in 7/6/1967)
FACT OF THE DAY: The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill was published in the July 1913 issue of Cherbourg School Magazine; a difference Lewis essay from 1912. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960)
FACT OF THE DAY: Present Concerns, an essay collection, came out on this day (July 10) in 1986. At the time all 19 essays had not previously been collected. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The knight…is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth …
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition …
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s book review of “The Allegory of the ‘Faerie Queen’” was published in the 6/11/60 issue of The Cambridge Review. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler.” Letters to An American Lady (Published in the UK June, 1969; letter written March 31, 1954)
Here’s another podcast featuring content from the recent 2016 Taylor Colloquium. This time it’s highlights from each of the three keynote addresses. That is, about fifteen minutes of the talks are provided in this show. You’ll hear Diana Glyer first as she talks about the process of writing and how Lewis and Tolkien often differed. Next …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian at the end of June (the 27th) in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in …
