FACT OF THE DAY: “Making and Begetting,” the first of the 4th BBC radio series was given today (2/22) in 1944. Eventually in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A vague religion-all about feeling God in nature, and so on-is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work.” Making and Begetting …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/20
FACT OF THE DAY: John, the main character in “The Pilgrim’s Regress” was born in Puritania (on the western side of the Eastern Mountains) – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “First-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” On the Reading …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/7
FACT OF THE DAY: In 1941 on this day (2/7) “Evil and God” was published in The Spectator. In 1944 “Bulverism” was a talk Lewis gave at the Socratic Club. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If evil has the same kind of reality as good, the same autonomy and completeness, our allegiance to …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 24th
FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (11/24) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 17th
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published today (11/17) in 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 6th
FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper read by Lewis to the Socratic Club today (11/6) in 1944. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 9th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on this date (10/9) in 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
Nice People or New Men
(Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
More than half of the Narnia books were published in the U.S. for the first time in October in the U.S.; which ones are they?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 6th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Horrid Red Things” was published today in Church of England Newspaper in 1944. It was adapted in the book Miracles.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to be true.”
Horrid Red Things
(Published in Church of England Newspaper on 10/6/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Two Narnia books were published later this month for the first time ever. When was this, what are their titles?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 4th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk given today in 1942 from Lewis’s third BBC series.
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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 feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.”
Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What essay did Lewis write with the title “red” in it that was first published this month in 1944?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 11th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Blimpophobia” is an article written by Lewis that was published on September 9, 1944 in Time and Tide.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother’s slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.”
The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
It’s no secret that J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t like the Narnia stories, however, what was a key problem he had with the first published story?
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