FACT OF THE DAY: “Christianity and Culture” appeared in the March 1940 issue of Theology, but someone replied to it that lead Lewis to comment further. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must …
Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #20
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. According to Walter Hooper, Lewis had likely finished writing all of The Screwtape Letters by the end of 1940. Learn more about my book, C.S. …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #19
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. The idea for Screwtape actually came to Lewis during a church service. He told his brother about it in a letter from July 1940: “It…would …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #15
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. Prior to Geoffrey Bles publishing The Screwtape Letters they released a book by Lewis in 1940 called The Problem of Pain. Learn more about my …
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/27
FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was released today (10/27) in 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Problem of Pain, Lewis’s first apologetic book was published today (10/18) in 1940. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Evil comes from the abuse of free will.” The Problem of Pain (Published 10/18/1940) – – – QUIZ OF THE DAY: What radio talk was illegally published? (Hint: It’s from …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today (8/17) in 1940 in Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/2
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” in April (on the 15th) in 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 3/15
FACT OF THE DAY: “Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published today (3/15) in 1940 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.” Dangers of National Repentance (Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40) – – …