FACT OF THE DAY: “Making and Begetting,” the first of the 4th BBC radio series was given on February 22, 1944. Eventually it become part of 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 …
CSL Daily 02/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The final radio talk from the second BBC series was given on February 15, 1942. It is now known as “The Practical Conclusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be …
CSL Daily 02/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on February 8, 1942. It’s now known as “The Perfect Penitent.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.” The Perfect …
CSL Daily 02/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” …
CSL Daily 02/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
CSL Daily 02/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Known as “The Shocking Alternative,” Lewis gave the 3rd talk on February 1, 1942 on the BBC from What Christians Believe series. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can shut [Jesus] up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can …
CSL Daily 01/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Later known as “The Invasion,” Lewis’s second talk from his second BBC radio series was given on January 18, 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.” The Invasion (Second Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/18/1942)
CSL Daily 01/11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On January 11, 1942 Lewis gave his first talk in the second BBC series called “What Christians Believe.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world …
CSL Daily 12/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Vision of John Bunyan” was published on Dec. 13, 1962 in The Listener. It was first a radio talk on the BBC. Hear and “essay chat” podcast on it via my All About Jack podcast. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Allegory frustrates itself the moment the author starts doing …
CSL Daily 11/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half …