Author: William OFlaherty

Fact/Quote/Quiz: Nov. 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (11/2) in 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on #CSLewis’s Cambridge lectures.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after forty years of reading it.”

Spenser’s Images of Life
(Published 11/2/1967)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book did Lewis first give as several radio broadcasts that all survived, but the print version has much more content than the audio (broadcast) version?

Sailing with the “Dawn Treader” (CSLM-29)

William OFlaherty CSL Minute

A great adventure at sea awaits you aboard the “Dawn Treader!”

When Eustace gets his first exposure to Narnia he, Edmund and Lucy join King Caspian who has already set sail to find the missing seven lords. They encounter various islands along the way. The initial stop is one of the Lone Islands where the slave trade is still practiced.

Dragon Island is where Eustace discovers his true nature. Not much happens on Burnt Island, but Deathwater Island more than makes up for that!

RETROSPECTIVE: November 1st -10th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect

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 November (1st – 10th) include: A two-part broadcast talk on “Faith,” a posthumous book on Spenser and the start of bus ride to an unknown destination.

Mere Christianity, as many people know, is a collection of three smaller books that were published in the early 1940’s. Before that they were individual broadcasts on the BBC. A person can pick any of them and gain insight from what Lewis shares. However, as I was reading over the two radio talks for this period I got to thinking that if out of all of the material he shared

QUOTE: November 1, 2013

William OFlaherty General

“Faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in sapite of your changing moods.”

Faith
(Given as a talk on November 1, 1942 and later published as chapter 11 in Christian Behavior)