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« Previous EntriesMere Christianity-2: Christian Behavior
Sunday, July 4th, 2010This is the second podcast in a three-part series on one of C S Lewis’ most important books, Mere Christianity. In this section we cover Christian morality, how Christians ought to behave. (Of course this may be different from how they actually behave). Jack (C S Lewis was known as Jack) argued for the truth [...]
Mere Christianity-1: Right and Wrong
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010This is the first podcast in a series of three on Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. This book is probably Jack’s most popular non-fiction work and it has been an important milestone in many people’s lives, including my own. It developed from a series of short talks that Jack gave on the BBC during [...]
Loving and Losing
Saturday, April 10th, 2010” ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all” (Tennyson) Today’s show tells the lovely (and tragic story) of C S Lewis’ marriage to Joy Gresham. Jack did not marry until he was 58 years old and after three years of happiness he lost his wife to cancer. His [...]
The Abolition of Man – Part 3: The Future
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010This is the third and last podcast on The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. The first podcasts covered whether there is anything like real external values or whether our values are based om only our subjective feelings. The second podcast review Jack’s answer that there is a universal Moral Law recognized by most [...]
The Abolition of Man – Part 2: The Universal Law
Saturday, December 12th, 2009This is the second of 3 podcasts about The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. In the last podcast we covered the trend in education towards basing ethical values on reason and feeling, and the denial that external events have any real value aside from the feelings they cause in the observer. In this [...]
The Abolition of Man – Part 1: Men Without Chests
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009This is the first of 3 podcasts about The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. Although it’s more than 60 years old, this book is surprisingly relevant to some of the major problems we see in our culture today. It tells us why we see so many people in all walks of life who [...]
The Last Battle – Part Two: Endings and Beginnings
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009This is the second of two podcasts on The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis. This book is the last in the Chronicles of Narnia and tells of the end of Narnia and the discovery of the real Narnia in Aslan’s country, Heaven. From a theological point of view we cover the Last Judgment, Salvation, [...]
The Last Battle – Part One
Friday, July 31st, 2009This is the first of a two-part series covering the final book in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle. In this book Lewis brings the story of Narnia to a fitting end. It is both a story of treachery, bravery, and battle, and a book that deals with the themes of good, evil, the [...]
The World’s Last Night
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Today’s book is The World’s Last Night and Other Essays. It is a collection of seven essays from later in C S Lewis’ life, after he was 50 years of age. They were written during a of some significant changes in his life. For one thing, he switched universities, going from Oxford to Cambridge. For [...]
The Magician’s Nephew
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009The book for today’s show is The Magician’s Nephew, a personal favorite of mine. It tells of the creation of Narnia and how evil came into that good land, and technically is the last Chronicle that Lewis wrote. He wrote The Last Battle and The Magician’s Nephew at the same time, but finished The Last [...]
