CLICK TO LISTEN TO AUDIO/PODCAST VERSION C.S. Lewis was obviously a writer, yet few people realize how much he personally wrote to others! In the bygone days your parents or grandparents (so they say) had to walk miles to school uphill…both ways! Also in that generation they claimed to do something else really odd…they wrote letters to …
Quiz: July 5, 2013
In “The Great Divorce” what animal was perched on the shoulder of a ghost that symbolized lust (and what color was it)?
Quote: July 5, 2013
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”
Preface to The Screwtape Letters
(Written on 7/5/1941)
Fact: July 5, 2013
Lewis wrote his preface to the first edition of The Screwtape Letters on this day in 1941.
Quote: July 4, 2013
(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
(first published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941)
Fact: July 4, 2013
The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Deals w/ pride and “Puritanism.”
Quiz: July 4, 2013
If you consider the order they were first published, what do you first notice about The Silver Chair that is different from the previous three stories?
Poets’ Corner Memorial (Dr. Michael Ward)
As previously mentioned there are plans to place a memorial stone at Poets’ Corner to honor C.S. Lewis on November 22, 2013. The following is an interview with Dr. Michael Ward about that event, which includes a brief conference. Listen to “Poets’ Corner Memorial” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit Lewis in Poets’ Corner Website Hear Dr. Ward Discuss The Narnia Code …
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Quote: July 3, 2013
“The poet’s route to our emotions lies through our imaginations.”
Studies in Words
(2nd edition published July, 1967)
Fact: July 3, 2013
Lewis’s first radio series was scheduled to be only four talks, but he got a lot of questions so he agreed to do a fifth broadcast.