FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published 81 years ago today (5/25/33). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/24
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine today (5/24) in 1945). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/23
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published today (5/23) in 1941 in The Guardian. It deal with “the painful subject of prayer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/22
FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on 5/21/1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936) – – – QUIZ OF …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/21
FACT OF THE DAY: The Allegory of Love was published today (5/21) in 1936. It was Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The function of allegory is not to hide but to reveal, and it is properly used only for that which cannot be said, or so well said, in …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/20
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” today (5/20) in 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” Religion …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/19
FACT OF THE DAY: What the Bird Said Early in the Year is a revised poem first published today (5/19) in 1938 as Chanson D’Aventure in The Oxford Magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton, was born today (5/18) in 1862. She went by “Flora.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A country clergyman wrote to the editor (of The Guardian), withdrawing his subscription on the ground that ‘much of the advice given in these letters seemed to him not …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Planets, a poem by Lewis was first published this month in 1935 in Lysistrata, II. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself. “ Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (Talk given on 5/11/1959) – – – QUIZ …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (5/16) in 1941 the third Screwtape Letter was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.” The Screwtape Letters III (Published in The Guardian on 5/16/1941) – – – QUIZ OF …