S4E6 – TSL 2 – “We are family”
Like old times, Matt and I sit down to discuss a chapter of C.S. Lewis! In this chapter of The Screwtape Letters, Uncle Screwtape advises his nephew on how to handle the patient’s church-going…
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S4E3 – TSL – “Preface”
We’re still not quite ready to begin reading Screwtape’s letters! In today’s episode we discuss the different Prefaces which Lewis wrote for the book… one of which includes a surprising secret!
S4E1 – TSL – Welcome to Season 4!
To celebrate “Hobbit Day”, today we begin Season 4 of “Pints With Jack”! This season we’ll be reading through C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters”. In this episode we introduce our new co-host and talk about what to expect this season…
S2E34 – AH – Emily LaPorte
In preparation for our reading of Till We Have Faces, Matt interviews Emily LaPorte.
S1E45 – Bonus – “Christmas Do-Over”
Matt and I wanted a little break, so today’s episode is a replay of our Christmas episode from last year. We’ll see you all in the New Year for Season 2 and “The Great Divorce”!
S1E44 – Narnia – “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
themes and ideas found in this fantasy work which we see taught didactically in Mere Christianity. Since Matt hadn’t read the Chronicles of Narnia, it was also a perfect opportunity to begin to correct his deficient education…
S1E42 – MC R – “Retrospective”
Having completed Mere Christianity, Matt and I take this episode to discuss the book as a whole, share some of our favourite parts, as well as what it was like to read a book “in public” over the course of a year…
S1E41 – MC B4C11 – “The New Men”
We have finally made it! In today’s episode we draw to a close our journey through “Mere Christianity”. Lewis closes out Book IV by talking in more detail about “The New Men”…
S1E40 – MC B4C10 – “Nice people or new men?”
Today we address a question which is often asked by skeptics: why are all Christians not obviously nicer than non-Christians? In response, Jack asks “Did Christ come to make nice people or new men?”
S1E39 – MC B4C9 – “Counting the cost”
In this episode we explore what Jesus meant when he said “Be ye perfect”…