FACT OF THE DAY: Happy anniversary to Lewis & Joy Davidman (1st time married on April 23, 1956). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All the beauty of nature withers when we try to make it absolute. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we …
CSL Daily 4/22
FACT OF THE DAY: “Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?” is the Annual Shakespeare Lecture Lewis gave on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” Hamlet: The Prince …
CSL Daily 4/21
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely …
CSL Daily 4/20
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (4/20) in 1942 is when Perelandra was published. It tells of adventures on Venus. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943)
16r Essay Chat – Willing Slaves of the Welfare State (Dr. Crystal Hurd)
Back in April 2012 I began an occasional series of essay chats. Each of these podcasts examine a single shorter work that C.S. Lewis wrote with the hopes of encourage you to read or re-read it. As “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” is repeated with this show, I find it hard to believe that I …
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CSL Daily 4/19
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on this day (4/19) in 1943. It is better known for being Book 3 of Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, …
CSL Daily 4/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited, with a Memoir by Warren Lewis was first published today (4/18) in 1966. Originally it began as a biography. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth …
CSL Daily 4/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry,” and best found in The World’s Last Night. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world …
CSL Daily 4/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” in April (on the 15th) in 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question …
CSL Daily 4/15
FACT OF THE DAY: While serving in WWI Lewis was wounded by a British shell on this day (4/15) in 1918 during the Battle of Arras. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and …