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 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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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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FACT OF THE DAY:
Christian Behaviour, the third BBC series for Lewis began on this day (9/20) in 1942. The first talk was “The Three Parts of Morality.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things . Each player’s individual instrument must be in tune and also each must come in at the right moment so as to combine with all the others.”
The Three Parts of Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/20/1942; Chapter one from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote many books about the Christian faith, but what title published this month was unique?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The Horse and His Boy was published today (9/6) in 1954. It was the fifth published book.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.”
The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What was Lewis’s last major critical (professional) book published before his death?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.”
The Screwtape Letters XVIII
(Published in The Guardian on 8/29/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Prior to Letters to Malcolm being published three of the chapters were published under what title and why?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
While today (8/23) was Lewis’s father birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) died.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published in 8/16/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Two articles came out in Time and Tide this month in the 1940’s. Can you name either?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
That Hideous Strength, a book from Lewis’s Sci-Fi trilogy, was published today (8/16) in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one. ”
That Hideous Strength
(Published in 8/16/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
A new edition of what non-fiction book was published this month?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The first known letter Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope occurred on this day (8/9) in 1939.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“One hopes there will come a day when one can enjoy nice things said about one’s self just in the same innocent way as one enjoys nice things about anyone else—perfect humility will need no modesty.”
Letter to Sister Penelope 8/9/1939
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book got the notice of someone from the BBC that lead to an invitation to Lewis’s debut on the radio that was this month?
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