The following is a conversation I had with Dr. Pamela Jordan-Long from Taylor University about the 2014 C.S. Lewis Colloquium being held on campus May 29-June 1. She also gives some details about their C.S. Lewis Center which has a wide range of books from him and several other authors. The featured speakers include Dr. Michael Ward and Dr. Bruce Edwards who have been on previous All About Jack shows.
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CSL Book Club (Allyson Wieland)
The following is a repeat of a short interview I did in 2012 about a website called “CSL Book Club.” Allyson Wieland created the site to freely provide copies of study questions she created for her local C.S. Lewis group. Since the interview I also had her on the show for my occasional “Essay Chat” series.
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The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition
As this show is released it is the 72nd anniversary of the publication of The Screwtape Letters. This seemed the perfect time to release an interview I record in the last week with Paul McCusker about an Annotated Edition he did that was just released in October, 2013. In this interview, learned how Paul became involved in this project and what to expect from the book.
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Screwtape Speaks at Demon-Chapel
My Fellow Junior Tempters,
As this semester at the Training College has gotten underway, Slubgob has asked me to close this morning’s demon-chapel. I come to you on a most delicate subject. As you know it was seventy years ago that some fool named C.S. Lewis released a book with my name on it. At the time I was not able to prevent this landmark event and have consistently tried to distant myself from it. However, I am here today to announce that I have been able to not only embrace the affair, but in some ways stand proud because of it!
Sure, there have been some unfortunate things that happen as a result of the book. Because Lewis first had my letters printed over the course of thirty-one weeks in The Guardian he managed to grow enough interest for the first printing of 2,000 copies to sell before it was published. This was followed by it being reprinted eight times
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Defiant Joy (Kevin Belmonte)
The following is a repeat of 2012 interview I did with professional writer Kevin Belmonte. This was my first time speaking with him, but he has since been on the show several other times (see links below). The main focus for today’s show is on Defiant Joy, one of the (now three) books about G.K Chesterton he’s written.
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EC05r – The Seeing Eye with Will Vaus (Essay Chat)
The following is a repeat of an earlier essay chat I first posted in 2012. This is the fifth in an occasional series of programs examining a single shorter work by C.S. Lewis. Today Will Vaus is my guest, he has written a number of books related to C.S. Lewis. Below you can find links to the ones I’ve done an interview with him. In this program we explore “The Seeing Eye” which is most easily found in the book Christian Reflections.
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CSL – A Dramatic Life (William Griffin)
As previously noted, 2013 was a very busy year. In fact today I have a show that was recorded before the end of last year, but with the breaking news of a CS Lewis movie called Jack & Tollers and other end of the year shows I didn’t get to post it until now. In late November, 2013 the New York C.S. Lewis Society held a special event to honor Lewis on the 50th anniversary of his death. One of the speakers was William Griffin, an editor and writer who did the unique biography on Lewis in the 1980’s called C.S. Lewis: A Dramatic Life.
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2013 Best of Recap
Over the last year I’ve had the privilege of interviewing many individuals. I checked the data of what shows were downloaded the most and the following podcast shares some of them. The program is just over 30 minutes, so I only share some brief moments from them. Check the links below to listen to those entire shows (and learn what I highlight). I also provide a second list of links to shows I didn’t include in the recap (because they were in the last two months) that were among the top downloads for the year.
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Jack & Tollers II (Dr. Louis Markos and Darren Jacobs)
The following is a special interview recorded 12/16/13 with both screenwriters from JACK & TOLLERS, Darren Jacobs and Dr. Louis Markos. The focus of the show today is more on information about the screenplay itself and what you can expect to see in the movie.
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On The Shoulders of Hobbits (Interview with Dr. Louis Markos)
Dr. Louis Markos has written several books on C.S. Lewis and some have been highlighted here before (see list below). He is also one of the co-writers (with Darren Jacobs) of the forthcoming JACK & TOLLERS movie. Last year he released a book dealing with the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien AND C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. It’s called On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis. The following link is an interview William O’Flaherty did with him about this book.
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