[PODCAST] Surprised By Misquotes (William O’Flaherty)

I gave the following short talk on Friday, June 1, 2018 at the Taylor University Colloquium. My brief presentation was part of a variety of academic papers that were presented. The full title of my talk was Surprised By Misquotes: Unexpected Findings from The Misquotable C. S. Lewis. In it, I share some of the unusual …

Battlefield of the Mind: Examining Screwtape’s Preferred Method (William O’Flaherty)

I just gave the following short talk on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at the Taylor University Colloquium. My brief presentation was part of a variety of academic papers that was presented  there. In it I explore the 13th through the 17th letters from The Screwtape Letters to reveal where an often overlooked “preferred method” of the devils is …

CONFIRMING C.S. LEWIS QUOTES – Talk by William O’Flaherty

CONFIRMING C.S. LEWIS QUOTES: Is Every Quote Credit to Him Really By Him? Saturday, August 22nd 7:00pm – 8:30pm Academic Solutions, Top Floor at 252 Signal Mountain Rd Chattanooga, Tn 37405 FREE LECTURE – But space is limited. RSVP on Facebook here.   How do you know if all the quotes you see on social …

CSLIS 2015 Panel Discussion (Part Two)

This is the second and final part of the panel discussion from the 2015 C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society (CSLIS) Conference that was at the end of March. The keynote speakers were Dr. Jerry Root and Dr. Diana Glyer. William O’Flaherty  moderated the session that was held at Grove City College (in PA) this year (the annual conference …

Upcoming Lecture on Lewis as Preacher

This year is the 75th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s first appearance behind the pulpit. His first sermon was in 1939 at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford. To help mark this landmark event William O’Flaherty will be speaking at the C. S. Lewis Society of Chattanooga on Tuesday, August 12 to highlight all of his messages.

O’Flaherty’s talk is entitled “Lewis as Preacher – A 75th Anniversary Reflection” as is part of the group’s free summer series held at The Camp House in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Preview some of the material that will be covered at the talk by reading an article recently posted on HarperOne’s official C.S. Lewis blog. Below is the first couple of paragraphs

What Lewis NEVER Wrote (with William O’Flaherty)

In this show I’m sharing a 20 minute academic paper I presented at Taylor University that was part of the 9th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends and given on Friday, May 30, 2014. The presentation I did was on quotations falsely attributed to Lewis. It was called “What Lewis NEVER Wrote.” The handout is available when you follow the link below to listen to the podcast.
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