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: 11/1
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the chapter title of what was the 7th BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that became the book Christian Behaviour (where it is chapter 11). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding on …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s review of The Life of Samuel Johnson appeared today (4/1) in Sunday Telegraph under the title of “Boswell’s Bugbear.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 12th
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s 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 …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 8th
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 …
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 1st
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s review of The Life of Samuel Johnson appeared today (4/1) in Sunday Telegraph under the title of “Boswell’s Bugbear.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
Christian Apologetics
(Talk given sometime around Easter 1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
“The Wild Waste Lands” was once a considered title of what Narnia book?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 12th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill.
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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 goes on, ‘For it is God who worketh in you’— which looks as if God did everything and we nothing.”
Faith (Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name Lewis’ lifelong friend from his teen years.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 10th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (11/10) in 1944 under the title of Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
Faith
(Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“Everybody says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until ____ _____ _____ _____ ______ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 8th
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).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you have gone a certain distance along the Christian road.”
Faith
(Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the talk Lewis gave this month that was later an essay published that has a question mark in the title.
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RETROSPECTIVE: November 1st -10th
The following is part of a series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is accomplished by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted period and may include significant events related to him after his death.
Highlights for the first third of November (1st – 10th) include: A two-part broadcast talk on “Faith,” a posthumous book on Spenser and the start of bus ride to an unknown destination.
Mere Christianity, as many people know, is a collection of three smaller books that were published in the early 1940’s. Before that they were individual broadcasts on the BBC. A person can pick any of them and gain insight from what Lewis shares. However, as I was reading over the two radio talks for this period I got to thinking that if out of all of the material he shared