“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT: September 27, 2013
The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast today in 1942. Published it was called “Social Morality”
QUIZ: September 27, 2013
What final new poetry book by Lewis was published this month?
QUIZ: September 26, 2013
Three Narnia books came out this month…which came out the latest in the month, regardless of the year?
QUOTE: September 26, 2013
“Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXII
(First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941)
FACT: September 26, 2013
The 22nd Screwtape letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. It’s the only one signed by Toadpipe.
QUOTE: September 25, 2013
“Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXI
(First published in The Guardian on 9/19/1941)
FACT: September 25, 2013
Today in 1929 Lewis’s father (Albert) died. His financial support was vital to Lewis getting his degrees at Oxford.
QUIZ: September 25, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words): “Of all bad men ______ _____ _____ are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.”
FACT: September 24, 2013
On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems.