FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published today (11/17) in 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/16) in 1966 the US edition of Letters of C.S. Lewis came out. It was edited, with a memoir by W.H. Lewis, his brother. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The remarkable thing about his literary career is that it never occurred to him until a relatively late date …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/15
FACT OF THE DAY: On 11/14/1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The …
(CCSLQ-12) Monkey Bars
UPDATED (8/18/18) – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/14
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (11/14) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/13
FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (11/13) in 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is …
Narnia Books Miniseries 07 The Last Battle
This is the seventh and final show in a special series on the books in the Narnia series. Previously this program had not been share on All About Jack because it was created for another venture (that is now inactive). Returning to help co-host are Dr. Crystal Hurd and Paul Martin. Kevin Belmonte (author of The Quotable Chesterton, D.L. Moody: A Life and and other …
Read the full post →“Narnia Books Miniseries 07 The Last Battle”
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/12
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/11
FACT OF THE DAY: The American edition of Mere Christianity was first published on this date (11/11) in 1952. It was published on 7/7 in the UK in ’52. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/10
FACT OF THE DAY: The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (11/10) in 1944 under the title of Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, …