The fifth Screwtape letter was published today (5/30) in The Guardian in 1941. It talked about Wormwood failing in his duties…
Quote: May 30, 2013
(Screwtape on the Dangers of War:) “One of our best weapons, contented worldliness, is rendered useless. In wartime not even a human can believe that he is going to live forever.” The Screwtape Letters – V (first published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941)
Quiz: May 30, 2013
What is the first action of Prince Rilian in The Silver Chair when he is free of his enchantment?
Quiz: May 29, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Truth and falsehood _____ _____ ; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”
Quote: May 29, 2013
“[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.”
Work and Prayer
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph; 5/28/1945)
Fact: May 29, 2013
“Transposition” is a sermon Lewis preached on 5/28/1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory.
Quote: May 28, 2013
“I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one has a free hand.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle
(from Volume 2 on 5/28/1949)
Fact: May 28, 2013
Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope today (5/28) in 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out 5/12/1947).
Quiz: May 28, 2013
What is Lewis’ wife real first name? (hint it’s not “Joy”)
Quote: May 27, 2013
“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”
The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933)