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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given today in 1942.

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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 obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.”

Sexual Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/11/1942; Chapter Five from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book that is a part of Mere Christianity was published this month (in what year)?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 9th

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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 4th

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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 30th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date in 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph.

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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 source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”

Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s mother got a degree from what university?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 28th

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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.

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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 source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”

Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”

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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast today in 1942. Published it was called “Social Morality”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”

Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book that was a collection of shorter works by Lewis was published this month in his lifetime?
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RETROSPECT: September 22nd – 30th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for September 22nd – 30th include: Debut story of a Sci-Fi trilogy, a landmark book published anonymously and the death of Lewis’s father to cancer.

It’s no secret that Lewis is known for being a versatile writer. One of his earliest efforts that spotlighted this fact is what happened on the 23rd in 1938. This is when Lewis released the first of what is referred to many fans as the Ransom trilogy. That’s because Dr. Elwin Ransom is a central character introduced in Out of the Silent Planet. Released a dozen years before the Narnia stories, some call this his first imaginative apologetic work. Apparently Lewis himself wasn’t aware of how useful of a tool fiction could be to present Christian ideas in a latent way. It was

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized on the BBC in six weekly installments on this date in 1959.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The value given to 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)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Three Narnia books came out this month…which came out the latest in the month, regardless of the year?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

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.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.”

3rd BBC Broadcast
(Given on 8/27/1941; Then known as What Can We Do About It)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.”
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RETROSPECT: August 12th – 21st

William OFlaherty Special Feature

Highlights for August 12-21 include: A final series of radio talks, the concluding book of a series, two more talks from his initial broadcast series and a never before published essay by Lewis that became available in 1990.

The first scholarly book by Lewis was The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. The theme of love in a broader sense is (obviously) of great importance to him and can be found in a large variety of his writings. So it is of no surprise that when Lewis finally agreed to return to the microphone for another series of radio talks this was the theme. These talks were recorded in London on the 19th and 20th in 1958, but they were not done for the BBC (as his previous radio work was). It was the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation from the United States who had made the request. Eventually the material from these talks were extended to become The Four Loves.