If you have been on social media over the last few years then you have probably seen a quotation attributed to Lewis from someone that you wondered if he actually wrote. That happen to me time and time again; so much that I began to collect them as I researched whether or not Lewis wrote …
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Back in April 2012 I began an occasional series of essay chats. Each of these podcasts examine a single shorter work that C.S. Lewis wrote with the hopes of encourage you to read or re-read it. As “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” is repeated with this show, I find it hard to believe that I …
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Here are a few of the podcast that were new in 2015 (more to be added later): Beyond the Shadowlands w/ Dr. Wayne Martindale The C.S. Lewis Collection (Logos Bible Software) Seven Literary Sages (Christian History Magazine) The Oxford Inklings (Dr. Colin Duriez) The Surprising Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Dr. Jerry Root) Not Quite Lewis …
Many casual readers of C.S. Lewis believe that he disliked women and some of them even think that he “encouraged misogyny and the oppression of women.” That last view was something that Dr. Crystal Hurd ran into when she was defending her doctoral dissertation. This encounter is part of what lead her to write a series of articles about Lewis and women. She began this project in May, 2013 and at the time of this posting is nearly finished.
The wait is over now! Dr. Bryce Edwards joined me, along with Paul Martin and Dr. Crystal Hurd to discuss The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
It’s no secret that C.S. Lewis was friends with J.R.R. Tolkien (unless you didn’t know). Did you also know that Lewis read what we now know as The Hobbit several years before it was published in 1937?! This year (2202) makes the 85th anniversary of its publication, so it seemed fitting to highlight some of the …
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The following special edition of the All About Jack podcast features an UNOFFICIAL audio commentary of the movie The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis starring Max McLean. Drs. Crystal Hurd and Charlie Starr joined William O’Flaherty to provide reflections on the movie itself and interesting facts about C.S. Lewis to help you …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” Willing Slaves of the Welfare State (Published in The Observer on 7/20/1958) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” Willing Slaves of the Welfare State (Published in The Observer on 7/20/1958) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was …
FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was published July 20, 1958 in The Observer. It was part of series on Is Progress Possible? Here’s an ESSAY CHAT podcast about it. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as …
