[Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well known.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride
(First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941)
FACT: October 10, 2013
The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride.
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)
QUOTE: September 18, 2013
“The value given ti the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
Religion: Reality or Substitute?
(Published in September-October, 1941 issue of World Dominion)
FACT: August 30, 2013
The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters.
FACT: August 27, 2013
The fourth radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today (8/27) in 1941; it was called “What Can We Do About It.”
FACT: August 22, 2013
The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way.
QUOTE: August 22, 2013
“One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVII
(first published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941)
FACT: August 20, 2013
The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion”
Fact: August 13, 2013
The second ever radio talk by Lewis was given today in 1941. At the time it was called “Scientific Law and Moral Law.” BUT this 2nd talk is called “THE REALITY OF THE LAW” in Mere Christianity and is chapter 3 of book one.