FACT OF THE DAY: The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 28th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 17th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s “The Efficacy of Prayer” essay appeared in the January issue of The Atlantic Monthly in 1959.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of properly trained parrots would serve as well.”
The Efficacy of Prayer
(Published in the January, 1959 issue of The Atlantic Monthly)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What other fictional book by Lewis was published the same year as the final Narnia book “The Last Battle?”
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FACT: September 28, 2013
The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh.