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. Lewis dedicated The Screwtape Letters to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien. Ironically, he actually disliked the book! Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to …
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Today begins a “countdown” to the publication of my book C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell. I put that word in quotation marks because it’s unclear at this point when the book will begin shipping in March of this year. In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to share some facts I learned from my years of …
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The following relatively short podcast is about my book due out in March, 2016. It’s called C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell: A Companion and Study Guide to The Screwtape Letters. This program is admittedly closer to self promotion than any other show I’ve done, however, I believe the work I’ve done in creating a book to help others enjoy The …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous …
FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …
FACT OF THE DAY: C.S. Lewis died on this date (11/22) in 1963, the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical …
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was released today (11/21) in 1941 in The Guardian. It was the next to last one. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us …
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 …
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (11/14) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a …
FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (11/13) in 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is …
