Max McLean’s stage production of The Screwtape Letters has been a hit in major cities across the United States. The play features Screwtape (frequently performed by McLean) and his assistant, Toadpipe in a witty adaptation of the book. William O’Flaherty spoke with him back in 2013 about this work and related matters, including the stage version of …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today (8/22) in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by …
FACT OF THE DAY: A previously unpublished essay by Lewis was the lead title piece in Christian Reunion published today (8/15) in 1990. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking …
FACT OF THE DAY: The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to …
FACT OF THE DAY: “Invocation of Saints” is a letter published today (5th) in 1949 in Church Times that is now in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness …
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/4) in 1922 Lewis earned a first class (highest honors) degree in Literae Humaniores (“Greats”) from Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware of …
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/1) in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even …
FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (7/25) in 1941 the 13th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. Wormwood has failed again…second conversion. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that …
FACT OF THE DAY: The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on this date (7/18) in The Guardian in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided …
FACT OF THE DAY: Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between …
