FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given today (Oct. 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, …
CSL Daily 10/5
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (Oct. 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 …
CSL Daily 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 …
CSL Daily 9/27
FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast today (Sept. 27) in 1942. Published it was called “Social Morality.” – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 4/19
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on this day (4/19) in 1943. It is better known for being Book 3 of Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/8
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the chapter title of what was the 8th and final BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that became the book Christian Behaviour (where it is chapter 12). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/29
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (10/29) in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/28
FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October, 1946 issue of Resistance. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; …
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 …