The following is part of a series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is accomplished by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted period and may include significant events related to him after his death. Highlights for the first third of December (1st – 10th) include: The first book …
Tolkien (Dr. Devin Brown)
Dr. Devin Brown is back with another book about C.S. Lewis’s (more famous) friend, J.R.R. Tolkien. This one is a brief biography simply called Tolkien. At the time I’m releasing this podcast, the final part of the movie version of The Hobbit will be out in a few weeks. Learn, or be reminded of, the interesting story …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 1st
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (12/1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 4 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 30th
FACT OF THE DAY: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (11/30) in the US in 1970. It was edited by Walter Hooper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think …
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Douglas Gresham Interview (Repost)
I’m reposting an interview I did with Douglas Gresham (one of C.S. Lewis’s stepsons) in late September, 2013 for three reasons. First, a few months ago I switch where I hosted my podcasts and I hadn’t yet posted it there and secondly, today (11/29) is the 116th anniversary of Lewis’s birth. Finally, while I later …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 29th
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 28th
FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 27th
FACT OF THE DAY: “Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 26th
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s funeral was held on this day (11/26) in 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists or …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 25th
FACT OF THE DAY: Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today …
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