FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (Nov 14) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked …
CSL Daily 11/13
FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (Nov. 13) in 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it …
CSL Daily 11/12
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the …
CSL Daily 11/11
FACT OF THE DAY: The American edition of Mere Christianity was first published on this date (Nov. 11) in 1952. It was published on July 7 in the UK in ’52. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world …
CSL Daily 11/10
FACT OF THE DAY: The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (Nov. 10) in 1944 under the title of Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not …
CSL Daily 11/09
FACT OF THE DAY: “Period Criticism” is an essay about Chesterton that was first published today (Nov. 9) in 1946 in “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The truth is that the whole criticism which turns on dates and periods, as if age-groups were the …
CSL Daily 11/08
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the chapter title of what was the 8th and final BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that became the book Christian Behaviour (where it is chapter 12). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you …
CSL Daily 11/07
FACT OF THE DAY: The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began today (Nov. 7) in 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we …
CSL Daily 11/06
FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper read by Lewis to the Socratic Club today (Nov. 6) in 1944. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are taught from childhood to notice how the perfect oak grows from the acorn and to forget that the acorn itself was dropped by a …
CSL Daily 11/05
FACT OF THE DAY: After being released in the UK earlier in 1958, Reflections of the Psalms came out in the US the same year on November 5th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience …