FACT OF THE DAY:
The World’s Last Night collection of essays book was first published on this day (2/10) in 1960. Lewis also gave a talk now known as “Membership” today in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.”
Membership
(Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found in The Weight of Glory)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is Reepicheep’s successor?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The Screwtape Letters (book) was first published in the UK on this date (2/9) in 1942.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”
Preface to The Screwtape Letters
(Published 2/9/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
“Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of ____ ____ ____ would serve as well..”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on this day (2/8) in 1942. It’s now know as “The Perfect Penitent.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.”
The Perfect Penitent
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/8/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What series of lectures did Lewis give this month that became book?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
In 1941 on this day (2/7) “Evil and God” was published in The Spectator. In 1944 “Bulverism” was a talk Lewis gave at the Socratic Club.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If evil has the same kind of reality as good, the same autonomy and completeness, our allegiance to good becomes the arbitrarily chosen loyalty of a partisan.”
Evil and God
(Published in The Spectator on 2/7/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What short story by Lewis was published this month in what publication?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is the only daughter of Kidrash Tarkaan and where is her story told?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Man Born Blind” was published on 2/4/1977 in Church Times. But a different version was later discovered called “Light.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does with us. But He is no mass-producer and treats no two quite alike.”
Letter to Mrs. Jessup on 2/5/1954
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is ____ ____ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this date (2/4) in 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a draft of The Hobbit (not published till ’37).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.”
Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Lewis had a debate in the late 1940’s with whom and what was it about?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published this month in 1956 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“I have come home at last! The is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The (often misunderstood) debate between #CSLewis and Anscombe happen on this date (2/2) in 1948.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIII
(Published in The Guardian on 2/2/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“For it is not so ___ ___ ___ ___ and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Known as “The Shocking Alternative,” Lewis gave the 3rd talk on this date (2/1) in 1942 on the BBC from What Christians Believe series.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.'”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
One of the few times Lewis discuss politics was published in an essay on what date last month (January) in what year (Hint: It related to one of the commandments)?
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