FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another Theme from Nicolas of Cusa” was published on January 21, 1955 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those …
CSL Daily 1/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Prudery and Philology” was published on January 21, 1955 in The Spectator. It is available in the Present Concerns book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” The Weight …
CSL Daily 1/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Romantics” is a poem that was found in The New English Weekly today (January 16) in 1947, but is now know as “The Prudent Jailer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who …
CSL Daily 1/4/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection, was first published on Jan. 4, 1965 (it’s now out of print). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I …
CSL Daily 12/19
FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (Dec. 19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language …
Essay Chat 19r – Screwtape Proposes a Toast (Brenton Dickieson)
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is an essay that is indirectly a follow-up to the successful book The Screwtape Letters. Brenton Dickieson joins William O’Flaherty for an essay chat on this insightful piece that Wormwood never got to hear. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1959 (see below for a link to read it …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #59
The Screwtape Letter is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. In 1982 Macmillan published a revised edition of The Screwtape Letters with Screwtape Proposes a Toast that included, for the first time, a preface …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #22
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” the follow-up essay from Lewis is about five times the length of the average letter from Screwtape. Learn more about my book, …
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CSL Daily 1/22
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another Theme from Nicolas of Cusa” was published on 1/21/1955 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted …
CSL Daily 1/21
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s “Prudery and Philology” was published today (1/21) in 1955 in The Spectator. It is available in the Present Concerns book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” The …