FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was published July 20, 1958 in The Observer. It was part of series on Is Progress Possible? Here’s an ESSAY CHAT podcast about it. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as …
CSL Daily 07/09/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Revival or Decay?” was published in the British weekly humor magazine Punch on July 9, 1958. It’s now available in God in the Dock collection of essays book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him …
CSL Daily 04/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Grand Miracle,” preached earlier this month in 1945 was printed in the April 27, 1945 issue of The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If I remember rightly, St. Augustine raised a question about the theological position of satyrs, monopods, and other semi-human creatures. He decided it could wait …
CSL Daily 04/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on April 21, 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth …
CSL Daily 04/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry,” and best found in The World’s Last Night. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to …
CSL Daily 04/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the …
CSL Daily 01/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.” …
CSL Daily 01/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of Reflections of the Psalms was published on Jan. 2, 1961. It was first released in 1958. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961)
CSL Daily 12/31/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Letter to the Editor, “Version Vernacular” published on Dec. 31, 1958 in The Christian Century. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, ‘Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.’ I was simple-minded …
CSL Daily 11/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that the present …