Dr. Charlie W. Starr has published several scholarly and popular articles on C. S. Lewis, especially on Lewis and film. His personal website has a section devoted to Lewis that you will want to check out. A large variety of articles he has written over the years are available in his “Charlie’s Lewis Essays” subsection. Among the articles is a very insightful piece called “C.S. Lewis’s Vision of Heaven” that was first published in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society. His “Chronicles of Narnia” area includes all the maps on Narnia in one place for easy reference. There are several other subsections in Charlie’s site to explore as well.
Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Unreal Estates,” a transcript of an interview with Lewis and others was published in the March, 1965 edition of Encounter.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In “The Last Battle” what is the result of the Dwarfs being so afraid of getting taken in again?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 26th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Dogma and Science” was published today (3/26) in 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”
The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The ______ ______ _____ _____ is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 25th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (3/25) in 1987 the US edition of Present Concerns, a collection of eighteen essays, became available.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Symbolism exists precisely for the purpose of conveying to the imagination what the intellect is not ready for.”
Letter to Sister Penelope CSMV on 3/25/1943
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
The first book ever published by Lewis was this month. What and when was it?
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Taylor Colloquium 2014 (REPEAT)
The following is a conversation I had with Dr. Pamela Jordan-Long from Taylor University about the 2014 C.S. Lewis Colloquium being held on campus May 29-June 1. She also gives some details about their C.S. Lewis Center which has a wide range of books from him and several other authors. The featured speakers include Dr. Michael Ward and Dr. Bruce Edwards who have been on previous All About Jack shows.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Must of Image of God Go?” is an essay published by Lewis in The Observer today (3/24) in 1963 and is available in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Any entity describable without gross abuse of language as God must be ultimate reality, and if ultimate reality is personal, then God is personal.”
Must of Image of God Go?
(Published in The Observer on 3/24/63)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book from the Narnia series was published this month in what year?
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RETROSPECT: March 22nd – 31st
Highlights for the final third of March (22nd – 31st) include: Publication of The Four Loves, his first essay collection and republication of a landmark professional work.
During the last decade of Lewis’s life his Christian-themed titles had less to do with defending the faith and more with sharing his understanding of a variety of aspects of it. The Four Loves, released on the 28th in 1960 is one of those works where he shares his wisdom on a topic related to the faith he had gained a greater understanding of over his life. Many individuals are not aware of the fact that two years prior to the book release Lewis had given ten radio talks on this theme.
Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s first collection of shorter works, Rehabilitations and Other Essays was published today (3/23) in 1939.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
Let’s Pretend
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
This moment ______ _______ _______ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 22nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Three Kinds of Men is a short essay by Lewis that was published in The Sunday Times on 3/21/1943.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The price of Christ is something, in a way, much easier than moral effort – it is to want Him. ”
Three Kinds of Men
(Published in The Sunday Times 3/21/43)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote about the “dangers” of what in an essay published sometime this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
Let’s Pretend is the fifth talk of the final BBC series given today (3/21) in 1944. Also Lewis recorded two final talks on this date.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth?”
Let’s Pretend
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who runs the Tempters’ Training College?
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