FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine today (5/24) in 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 …
18r Essay Chat – On Three Ways of Writing for Children (Brenton Dickieson)
This week is the final “catch-up” of a previous essay chat that hadn’t yet been re-released since changing podcast hosting to Podbean in late 2014. In the early 1950’s Lewis began releasing a series of books that he is most associated with now. Lewis gave a talk in 1952 when less than half of his …
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75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #23
The fame from The Screwtape Letters led to Lewis being on the cover of Time magazine on September 8, 1947. 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, …
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CSL Daily 5/23
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published today (5/23) in 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 …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #22
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” the follow-up essay from Lewis, is about five times the length of the average letter from Screwtape. 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, …
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CSL Daily 5/22
FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on 5/21/1947 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)
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #21
In the new preface to the 1961 edition Lewis joked about The Screwtape Letters being the type of book “that gravitates towards spare bedrooms, there to live a life of undisturbed tranquility.” 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 …
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CSL Daily 5/21
FACT OF THE DAY: The Allegory of Love was published today (5/21) in 1936. It was Lewis’s 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 …
CSL Daily 5/20
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” today (5/20) in 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 …
75th Anniversary of The Screwtape Letters #20
According to Walter Hooper, Lewis had likely finished writing all of The Screwtape Letters by the end of 1940. 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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