FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on 5/28/1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #28
James Forsyth, who wrote the play Screwtape, shared the copyright of the drama with C.S. Lewis. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About Jack. Also …
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CSL Daily 5/28
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope today (5/28) in 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out 5/12/1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #27
In 1961, two years before Lewis died, James Forsyth published a dramatic play entitled Screwtape that was based on The Screwtape Letters. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast …
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CSL Daily 5/27
FACT OF THE DAY: “Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #26
Marvel Comics came out with a graphic novel edition of The Screwtape Letters in 1994. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About Jack. Also you …
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CSL Daily 5/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published this month (5/28) in 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)
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #25
A major theme of “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is how democracy can be twisted to benefit Hell’s purposes. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About …
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CSL Daily 5/25
FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published 83 years ago today (5/25/33). – – – 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 …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #24
The essay “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” was published less than five years before Lewis died. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About Jack. Also you …
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