QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” The Last Battle (said by Jewel the Unicorn) (Published on 3/19/1956) – – …
CSL Daily 03/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.’” The Last Battle (Published on 3/19/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Last Battle was first published on March 19, 1956. …
CSL Daily 03/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God is love, and that love works through men— especially through the whole community of Christians.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 12, 1919, Lewis presented a paper to the Marlets on the textile designer, artist, writer and Utopian socialist, William Morris. …
90 Sec #5 – REEPICHEEP: Narnia Character Profile – 1 (YouTube)
Here’s the fifth show from my 90 second YouTube channel. This episode varies slightly from the others, as it is the first of an occasional “Narnia Character Profile,” aimed at giving you a brief look at one of the many characters from Lewis’ most beloved stories. Note the text version of the show is below, …
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CSL Daily 03/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVIII (Published in The Guardian on 3/9/1945) – – – FACT OF THE …
90 Sec #4 – First BBC Radio Talk (YouTube)
Here’s the fourth regular show from my 90 second YouTube channel. The purpose is to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! First BBC Radio Talk by C.S. Lewis (August 6, 1941) Mere Christianity is, after the Narnia …
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CSL Daily 02/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “First-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” On the Reading of Old Books (Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: John, the main …
90 Sec #3 – When The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was Published (YouTube)
Here’s the third regular show from my new 90 second YouTube channel. The purpose is to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Published (October 16, 1950) If you asked someone …
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CSL Daily 02/06/20
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.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
CSL Daily 02/03/20
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) – – – 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. It’s now available …