Today we begin “Barfield Month”, where we look at the life and work of the Inkling, Owen Barfield. In the first episode of this series, we speak to another man named “Owen Barfield”, the Inkling’s grandson.
Matt and David put on their berets and Gucci jackets and talk about fashion!
In his preface to “The Screwtape Letters”, C.S. Lewis wrote that, ideally, there should ideally be an angelic counterpart to Screwtape’s advice. In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Charlie Starr about Lewis’ only surviving attempt to do just that! We also talk about movies, books, and C.S. Lewis’ handwriting.
Dr. Douglas Beaumont joins David today to disucss Letter #24 of “The Screwtape Letters” where Screwtape explains how he is going to use the patient’s new group to foster his pride.
Today we journey to Middle-Earth with Professor Michael Jahosky. Michael released his book, The Good News of The Return Of The King: The Gospel in Middle-Earth, at the end of last year in which looks at the use of language, allegory, and metaphor in Tolkien’s Legendarium.
Concluding that they’re not going to be able to extricate religion from the patient’s life anytime soon, Screwtape decides to adopt a new strategy. By encouraging him to accept a different vision of Jesus, and by wedding the his faith to politics, they’re going to turn the patient into a Pharisee!
After hearing Dr. Robert Royal give a two-part lecture series on The Screwtape Letters to The Institute of Catholic Culture, we invited him onto the show to talk about everyone’s favourite devil.
Wormwood’s patient is in love! Unfortunately for Wormwood, she is a Christian woman who is full of virtue! Needless to say, Screwtape is livid…
Carolyn Curtis, co-editor of “Women and C.S. Lewis”, came on the show to discuss her book which was recently rereleased as an audiobook. In this work she gathers together a large number of C.S. Lewis writers to examine C.S. Lewis’ life and literature in order to understand his relationship with women and respond to those who would charge Lewis with sexism.
Today we come to David’s least favourite letter from Uncle Screwtape which is on the subject of possessiveness, particularly with regards to time. Joining him today is a returning guest to the show, Sister Natalia from the “What God Is Not podcast”, together with another nun from her convent, Sister Petra.