[Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIII
(first published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941)
Quiz: July 26, 2013
What animal was Screwtape turn into when he became so angry with Wormwood?
Fact: July 25, 2013
This day in 1941 the 13th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. Wormwood has failed again…second conversion.
Quote: July 25, 2013
[Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that he really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctiveness of every one of them.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIII
(first published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941)
Quiz: July 25, 2013
Clipsie is the chief duffer’s daughter in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but what does her name mean?
Fact: July 24, 2013
The Problem of Pain was dedicated to “The Inklings.” Loosely speaking they were similar to what is commonly called a “Writer’s group.”
Quote: July 24, 2013
“You can step outside one experience only by stepping inside another. Therefore, if all inside experiences are misleading, we are always misled.”
Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph 7/17/1945)
Quiz: July 24, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
Fact: July 23, 2013
The Business of Heaven, published earlier this month in 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format. It was edited by Walter Hooper.
Quiz: July 23, 2013
Whom did Lewis meet when he served in World War I that dramatically changed his life?