FACT OF THE DAY: The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (11/10) in 1944 under the title of Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on this date (10/26) in 1964. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Forgiveness (Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/25
FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live today (10/25) in 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.” The Great …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/11
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given today (10/11) in 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/8
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A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published today (10/8) in 1942. Lewis adapted it from the 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures.
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/5
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (10/5) in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/4
FACT OF THE DAY: “Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk given today (10/4) in 1942 from Lewis’s third BBC series. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/30
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (9/30) in 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/28
FACT OF THE DAY: The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/20
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour, the third BBC series for Lewis began on this day (9/20) in 1942. The first talk was “The Three Parts of Morality.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things . Each …