Tag: The Coventry Evening Telegraph

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 24th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922-27 came out in the US today (7/24) in 1991 (three months after its release in the UK).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You can step outside one experience only by stepping inside another. Therefore, if all inside experiences are misleading, we are always misled.”

Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who came up with the name “The Chronicles of Narnia” for the entire series of books?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 17th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published today (7/17) in The Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.”

Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Clipsie is the chief duffer’s daughter in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but what does her name mean?
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RETROSPECT: July 11th – 21st

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Highlights for the period of July 11-21 include: the first book resulting from speaking on the BBC, an unusual meditation, and the death of Joy.

When Lewis agreed to do talks over the radio he had no idea how well received they would be. After two successful series of talks that were each in five parts and another series scheduled to start in late September, the book Broadcast Talks was released on the 13th in 1942. Unlike the later books released after each of his last two series, this book contained no additional material. They were merely five chapters each to match what was on the air. The only difference had to do with the order of the chapters from the first series.

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 29th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on 5/28/1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.”

Work and Prayer
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 5/28/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“I believe that was the sort of thing I was thinking of…But….I’ve an idea that all those circles and things are rather rot. I don’t think he’d like them. It would look as if we thought we could make him do things. But really, we can only ask him.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”

The Pilgrim’s Regress
(Published 5/25/1933)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What close friend of Lewis died sometime this month?
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RETROSPECT: May 22th – 31st

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Highlights for the final third of May (22nd – 31st) include: A prize-winning essay, his first Christian book that was his only true allegory and a Pentecost sermon.

Lewis’s first book after becoming a Christian was very different in several ways than his two previous works. Those initial titles were poetry, while The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, publishedon the 25th in 1933 was his debut prose effort. Additionally, the story was pure allegory. Interestingly, it was such a difficult read that Lewis himself even admitted it and ten years after its release he wrote a preface to explain his approach to the story.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Laws of Nature by Lewis was published today (4/4) in The Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1945. now found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The laws of Nature explain everything except the source of events.”

The Laws of Nature
(Published April 4, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In which book of the Space/Ransom Trilogy is Belbury mentioned and what is it?

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 21st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (2/21) in 1945 “”Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer?” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?”

Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer?
(First published in 1945, it was reprinted as Two Lectures in God in the Dock)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book did Tolkien try to help Lewis get publish sometime this month in what year?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 3rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on this day (1/3) in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.”

Religion and Science
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Although fourteen chapters are in The Great Divorce, it was first published in how many weekly installments?
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