Just recently I highlighted three videos from the C. S. Lewis Symposium that was held on 11/21/13. There are actually a couple of other resources related to this that I wanted to make sure you were aware of. One is a single audio file featuring highlights from the actual memorial service from the following day. The other is a video of Dr. William Lane Craig when he spoke at the C.S. Lewis Oxford Society last year.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 3rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Second Edition of Studies in Words was released in July 6, 1967 with three new words/chapters.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The poet’s route to our emotions lies through our imaginations.”
Studies in Words, 2nd Edition
(Published in 7/6/1967)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What one-legged creatures are found during the Dawn Treader voyage?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill was published in the July 1013 issue of Cherbourg School Magazine; a difference Lewis essay from 1912.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
The Four Loves
(U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing… to find the place where all the _____ _____ _____ . ”
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RETROSPECT: July 1st – 10th
Highlights for the first third of July (1st – 10th) are: the release of his landmark nonfiction book, the publication of a new collection of shorter works and the preface to his first claim to fame was written.
In the early 1950’s Lewis saw continual success from his writing. By the middle of 1952 he had experienced significant praise from his venture into children’s literature with two Narnia stories released and a third due out in a few months. But it was on the 7th of July in 1952 that a new book came out that was actually a re-release of previous material that secured Lewis as an author of practical information about the Christian faith. Mere Christianity is the best known non-fiction book by Lewis. Various individuals from many walks of life give credit to this book as either strengthening their faith, or as a tool that God used to lead them to Christianity.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 1st
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.”
The Four Loves
(U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Whom did Lewis meet when he served in World War I that dramatically changed his life?
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C.S. Lewis Symposium – YouTube Videos (Peter Byrom)
On my Resource Spotlight section I recently highlighted three videos from the C.S. Lewis Symposium that were filmed last year and just uploaded to YouTube. I had the chance to speak with Peter Byrom from Christian Evidence about these videos. Peter did the editing of them and gives a short summary of each, along with other details related to the videos. These three videos features a lecture by Dr. Alister McGrath, Dr. Malcolm Guite and panel discussion lead by Dr. Michael Ward.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 30th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s book review of “The Allegory of the ‘Faerie Queen'” was published in the 6/11/60 issue of The Cambridge Review.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler.”
Letters to An American Lady
(Published in he UK June, 1969)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“All right, all right, You needn’t shout. I’m not so deaf as all that. What do you mean by coming here to tell me that nobody’s been killed? Why should anyone have been killed?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 29th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian at the end of June (the 27th) in 1941.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.”
The Screwtape Letters IX
(Published in The Guardian on 6/27/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“We…shall not be _____ _____ _____ _____ on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 4th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published today (7/4) in 1941 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape commenting on the patent faking cynical and skeptical attitudes):
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”
The Screwtape Letters X
(Published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the title of the non-Lewis fictional book that was published this month by a famous friend?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 28th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on this day (6/28) in 1946.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/28/1963
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the title on a essay by Lewis, published this month that dealt with the order of “things?”
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