FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (12/1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 4 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/30
FACT OF THE DAY: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (11/30) in the US in 1970. It was edited by Walter Hooper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/28
FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/27
FACT OF THE DAY: “Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s funeral was held on this day (11/26) in 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists or …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/25
FACT OF THE DAY: Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/24
FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (11/24) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/23
FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/22
FACT OF THE DAY: C.S. Lewis died on this date (11/22) in 1963, the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical …