QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape boasts:) “All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.” The Screwtape Letters II (Published in The Guardian on 5/9/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published May 9, 1960 containing a revised third chapter. – – – …
CSL Daily 05/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape …
90 Sec SPECIAL #2: Fellowship for Performing Arts (YouTube Channel)
Here’s a special edition of “90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis” (it’s the same length, but not about Lewis himself). Note the text version of the show is below! Fellowship for Performing Arts Today I’m sharing about a great organization that produces excellent plays; the majority of them related to C.S. Lewis. Their name is …
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90 Sec #4 – First BBC Radio Talk (YouTube)
Here’s the fourth regular show from my 90 second YouTube channel. The purpose is to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! First BBC Radio Talk by C.S. Lewis (August 6, 1941) Mere Christianity is, after the Narnia …
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CSL Daily 02/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” The Screwtape Letters (Released in the U.S. on 2/16/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S. on February 16, 1943, but was …
CSL Daily 02/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.” A Grief …
CSL Daily 02/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” Preface to The Screwtape Letters (Published 2/9/1942) – – – FACT OF THE …
90 Seconds #1 – Met J. R. R. Tolkien (YouTube Show)
Here’s something new I’m doing…a 90 second YouTube “show” to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. I plan to release something new each week. Hopefully, it will eventually be a book with 365 entries. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! Met J. R. …
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CSL Daily 11/28/19
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 liberation.” The Screwtape Letters – XXXI (First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from …
CSL Daily 11/23/19
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 our part, be turned into a sense of injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “March for …