FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for …
CSL Daily 3/29
FACT OF THE DAY: 21st installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (3/29) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.” …
CSL Daily 3/26
FACT OF THE DAY: “Dogma and Science” was published today (3/26) in 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I …
CSL Daily 3/16
FACT OF THE DAY: 19th installment of what eventually became The Great Divorce was published today (3/16) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Fame in [Heaven] and fame on Earth are two quite different things.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIX (Published in The Guardian on 3/16/1945) – – …
CSL Daily 3/15
FACT OF THE DAY: “Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published today (3/15) in 1940 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.” Dangers of National Repentance (Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40) – – …
CSL Daily 3/9
FACT OF THE DAY: 18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian today (3/9) in 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.” Mr …
CSL Daily 3/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to a group known as the Martlets on this day (3/3) in 1930. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.” …
Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #41
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. When the letters appeared weekly in The Guardian a year before the book came out, some of them had titles. For example, the 23rd …
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CSL Daily 1/26
FACT OF THE DAY: The first meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club was today (1/26) in 1942. Lewis was the 1st president. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if …
CSL Daily 1/10
FACT OF THE DAY: Back in 1941, today’s (1/10) issue of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” from Lewis. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great.” Meditation on the Third Commandment (Published in The Guardian on …