David interviewed Jeremiah C. Braudrick about his book, Removing The Dragon Skin, and how C.S. Lewis helped him reclaim his faith.
S5E38: “Removing The Dragon Skin” – After Hours with Jeremiah C. Braudrick (Download)
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Show Notes
Introduction
Quote-of-the-week
I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity.
C.S. Lewis, Letters To Malcolm (Letter #18)
Biographical Information
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Chit-Chat
I discovered Jeremiah when a Patreon supporter, Lori, sent me a magazine with his story.
Beverage and Toast
- David was drinking a cup of tea
- Jeremiah was drinking Zevia Ginger Root Beer
- We toasted Patreon supporter Thomas F Murray, Jr:
Thomas, we pray that you remain free of Dragon’s skin and, like Reepicheep, will one day reach Aslan’s country.
Toast for Thomas F. Murry, Jr
Discussion
1. “Background”
- As I said in the introduction, normally our interviews are structured a little differently, but because your background, your encounter with Jack, and your book are all interrelated, why don’t we begin with you just telling us your story?
David mentioned the Narnia podcast, The Lamp-Post Listener.
2. “Encountering Lewis”
I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity… Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.
C.S. Lewis, Letters To Malcolm (Letter #18)
“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”
C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chapter 10)
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to ‘rejoice’ as much as by anything else.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (Chapter 4)
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcom (Letter 18)
3. “Jeremiah Today”
- To where has your journey led today?
4. “The Book Genesis”
- How did you come to write about about Lewis?
5. “Book Overview”
- Your book divided it into six parts. Can you talk us through each of the parts and give us some idea of what readers will find in each section?
We have been like bathers who want to keep their feet–or one foot–or one toe–on the bottom, when to lose that foothold would be to surrender themselves to a glorious tumble in the surf.
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (Chapter 6)
“Then the lion said—but I don’t know if it spoke—You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat down on my back to let him do it.
C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chapter 7)
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (Book III, Chapter 11)
As a great Christian writer (George MacDonald) pointed out, every father is pleased at the baby’s first attempt to walk: no father would be satisfied with anything less than a firm, free, manly walk in a grown-up son. In the same way, he said, “God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (Book IV, Chapter 9)
If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say “Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends”
C.S. Lewis, Letter to Arthur Greeves (29th December 1935)
“A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.”
C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms (Chapter 2)
“There are three images in my mind which I must continually forsake and replace by better ones: the false image of God, the false image of my neighbours, and the false image of myself”
C.S. Lewis, Inscription in Joy Davidman’s copy of “The Great Divorce”
