FACT OF THE DAY: The American edition of Mere Christianity was first published on this date (11/11) in 1952. It was published on 7/7 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 were just …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/10
FACT OF THE DAY: The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (11/10) 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 know, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/9
FACT OF THE DAY: “Period Criticism” is an essay about Chesterton that was first published today (11/9) 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 proper …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/8
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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/7
FACT OF THE DAY: The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began today (11/7) 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 have …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/6
FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper read by Lewis to the Socratic Club today (11/6) in 1944. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/5
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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/4
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Weight of Glory” was published in the November, 1941 issue of Theology. See it online here. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters: C.S. Lewis, Don Giovanni Calabria: A Study in Friendship was published on November 1, 1988 and contained 28 letters from Lewis. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/2
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/2) in 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after …