FACT OF THE DAY: A second edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress was published in October, 1935 by Sheed & Ward. The first publisher was J.M. Dent in 1933. The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition officially came out on this day (10/12) in 2014. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What does not satisfy when …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/11
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given today (10/11) in 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/10
FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/9
FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on this date (10/9) in 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/8
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A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published today (10/8) in 1942. Lewis adapted it from the 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures.
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/7
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day (10/7) in 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.” …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/6
FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published today (10/6) in Church of England Newspaper in 1944. It was adapted in the book Miracles. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/5
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (10/5) in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/4
FACT OF THE DAY: “Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk given today (10/4) in 1942 from Lewis’s third BBC series. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/3
FACT OF THE DAY: The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published today (10/3) in The Guardian in 1941. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine …