The fourth talk from the third BBC series, Sexual Morality was given today in 1942.
QUOTE: October 10, 2013
[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 well known.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride
(First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941)
FACT: October 10, 2013
The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride.
QUIZ: October 10, 2013
Two Narnia books were published later this month for the first time ever. When was this, what are their titles?
QUIZ: October 9, 2013
Name the source of this quote: “He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
QUOTE: October 9, 2013
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
Nice People or New Men
(Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944)
FACT: October 9, 2013
Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on this date in 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC.
QUOTE: October 8, 2013
“Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.”
A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’
(Published 10/8/1942)
QUIZ: October 8, 2013
Lewis’s mother got a degree from what university?
FACT: October 8, 2013
A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published today (10/8) in 1942. Lewis adapted it from the 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures.