FACT OF THE DAY: The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today (8/20) in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/15
FACT OF THE DAY: A previously unpublished essay by Lewis was the lead title piece in Christian Reunion published today (8/15) in 1990. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/13
FACT OF THE DAY: The second ever radio talk by Lewis was given today (8/13) in 1941. At the time it was called “Scientific Law and Moral Law” but is “THE REALITY OF THE LAW” in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The laws of nature, as applied to stones or trees, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/11
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sailing of the Ark” was published on this day (8/11) in 1948 in Punch. Revised and retitled “The Late Passenger” in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/8
FACT OF THE DAY: The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/6
FACT OF THE DAY: “Common Decency,” the first BBC broadcast by Lewis was given today (8/6) in 1941. It is better known as “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/1) in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/26
FACT OF THE DAY: The U.S. Paperback editions of Surprised By Joy and Till We Have Faces came out on July 9th ten years apart (1970, 1980). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/25
FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (7/25) in 1941 the 13th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. Wormwood has failed again…second conversion. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on this date (7/18) in The Guardian in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided …