{"id":1167,"date":"2025-03-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whattoseeinwashingtondc.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2025-03-22T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:32:29","slug":"becoming-c-s-lewis-from-wwi-to-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whattoseeinwashingtondc.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/becoming-c-s-lewis-from-wwi-to-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming C. S. Lewis: From WWI to WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the audio portion of \u201cC. S. Lewis: The Myth That Became Fact<\/a>\u201d, you hear his voice, just as the British public did on this day in 1944.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When C. S. Lewis spoke into the BBC microphone, he spoke to an audience suffering through WWII. He was a different man than the one who’d served 28 years earlier in WWI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He’d been a 19-year-old atheist, serving on the front line trenches, with death all around him. Now, in this 14-minute broadcast, he used the dominant media of his day to speak timeless truths in an uncertain time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This audio from the Beyond Personality: \u201cThe New Man\u201d broadcast became a chapter in Mere Christianity, as did many of his other talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He changed from doubting and despair during WWI to comfort and reassure us that God is making \u201cnew men\u201d in Christ. He’d already lived the transformation he spoke of on this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cC. S. Lewis: The Myth That Became Fact\u201d is on display on the 3rd floor of the Museum of the Bible. For more information on hours and tickets, visit their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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