FACT OF THE DAY: On 11/14/1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The …
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Let’s Pretend is the fifth talk of the final BBC series given today (3/21) in 1944. Also Lewis recorded two final talks on this date.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth?”
Let’s Pretend
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who runs the Tempters’ Training College?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
During this month in 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.”
Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book by Lewis that had been a series of broadcasts was published sometime this month?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on this day (2/8) in 1942. It’s now know as “The Perfect Penitent.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.”
The Perfect Penitent
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/8/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What series of lectures did Lewis give this month that became book?
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Which Narnia book was dramatized over the radio BEFORE Lewis died?
Highlights for August 22nd – September 1st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.
As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton (Flora) Lewis died
The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion”
Lewis began recording today in 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series on four types of love (that later was expanded to become The Four Love book).
The second ever radio talk by Lewis was given today in 1941. At the time it was called “Scientific Law and Moral Law.” BUT this 2nd talk is called “THE REALITY OF THE LAW” in Mere Christianity and is chapter 3 of book one.
What book got the notice of someone from the BBC that lead to an invitation to Lewis’s debut on the radio that was fhis month?
