It’s time for another Lewis podcast cross-over! Matt chats with Dan and Alex from The C.S. Lewis Book Club.
S6E48: “C.S. Lewis Book Club” (Download)
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Show Notes
Introduction
Drop-In
Quote-of-the-week
He made a strong resolution, defying in advance all changes of mood, that he would faithfully carry out the journey to Meldilorn if it could be done.
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (Chapter 14)
Chit-Chat
- Matt will be going to Utah soon and should meet Dan in-person!
Toast
- Matt was drinking Glenkinchie 12
- His guests were drinking Throat Coat tea and Spindrift
- Matt toasted patron supporter, James Gowan
Biographical Information
Originally from Las Vegas and Southern California respectively, they became fast friends during their undergraduate college years, eventually roommates, and now creators & hosts of the C.S. Lewis Book club. They are each married with several kids and no longer roommates. Alex’s background is in child psychology, while Dan is the founder/managing partner of a boutique investment firm in SLC.
Guest Biographical Information
Discussion
01. “Background”
Q. Would you tell us more about yourselves?
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02. “Favourites”
Q. What is your favourite Lewis book and favourite Lewis themes?
“Somehow what Lewis thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything.”
Owen Barfield, The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Writer, and Imaginative Writer
03. “Origin Story”
Q. What prompted you to start a podcast?
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04. “Podcast Planning”
Q. How is your podcast organised?
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05. “The Best and Worst”
Q. What have been some of the best and worst parts of hosting a podcast?
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06. “Silent Planet preparation, expectation, and impact”
Q. What preparations did you make prior to reading Out of the Silent Planet, what did you expect from reading it and how did it impact you?
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07. “Reluctant Charity”
Q. What did you think about the theme reluctant charity?
He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chapter 10)
08. “Fear”
Q. Where did you see the theme of fear?
That is true, Oyarsa. Bent creatures are full of fears.
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (Chapter 18)
Because I have stood there alone, Maleldil and I, for even Oyarsa sent me no word, my heart has been higher, my song deeper, all my days. But do you think it would have been so unless I had known that in Balki hnéraki dwelled? There I drank life because death was in the pool.
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (Chapter 12)
Faith is holding on in the darkness what you have seen in the light
David Bates and others, but not C.S. Lewis
09. “Contemporary Application”
Q. What do you think is the best application of Out of the Silent Planet to our contemporary society?
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10. “Is Malacandra fallen or unfallen?”
Q. Do you think Malacandra is fallen or unfallen?
“The world is born to-day,” said Malacandra. “To-day for the first time two creatures of the low worlds, two images of Maleldil that breathe and breed like the beasts, step up that step at which your parents fell, and sit in the throne of what they were meant to be. It was never seen before. Because it did not happen in your world a greater thing happened, but not this. Because the greater thing happened in Thulcandra, this and not the greater thing happens here.”
C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (Chapter 16)
11. “The podcast future”
Q. What are your plans for the future?
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Wrap-Up
More Information
- The C. S. Lewis Book Club website
- The C.S. Lewis Book Club Instagram
- The C.S. Lewis Book Club on iTunes
