CS Lewis Podcast

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#170 Alister McGrath: Is Lewis a helpful spiritual mentor?

12 Aug 2024
00:17:55

How did CS Lewis live out his Christian faith? What practical tools or approaches can he offer to inform our spiritual practices? How can Lewis help us work out our vocation? Does he have any advice for those experiencing doubt? Professor Alister McG...

#169 James Emery White: Culture, translation and COVID-19

5 Aug 2024
00:20:43

How did CS Lewis translate Christianity for ordinary people? What would he say to our post-Christian culture? Can Lewis help with evangelism? In what ways did people apply his ideas to the COVID-19 pandemic? Pastor, author and theologian Dr James Eme...

#168 Philip Tallon: What if God isn't good?

29 Jul 2024
00:18:42

Did Lewis want to rewrite some of his earlier work on suffering in light of his own experience of pain and loss? Did Lewis doubt the existence of God or question his character during these times? What words of encouragement would Lewis give to those...

#167 Philip Tallon: How do hell, the Fall and beauty fit into Lewis' theodicy?

22 Jul 2024
00:24:49

How does Lewis perceive the Fall? Is he able to reconcile it with an evolutionary model? Where does the cross feature in The Problem of Pain? What did Lewis think of hell? In what ways does Lewis help us to recognise beauty and aesthetics in our disc...

#166 Philip Tallon: Is pain a megaphone?

15 Jul 2024
00:21:17

Can pain ever be good for us? What about children with cancer? How do we account for animal suffering? Will our pets be in heaven? Does our theology of heaven impact our thoughts around suffering? Dr Philip Tallon, Associate Professor of Theology and...

#165 Philip Tallon: Is pain a problem?

8 Jul 2024
00:26:12

Dr Philip Tallon, Associate Professor of Theology and Dean of The School of Christian Thought at Houston Christian University, unpacks one of Lewis' earliest work of apologetics The Problem of Pain. What are the critiques of this book and can any of...

#164 Johan Erasmus: Coming to faith via Richard Dawkins and CS Lewis

1 Jul 2024
00:34:46

Can Lewis still speak to us today? Following the death of his father as a child, Afrikaner pastor Johan Erasmus struggled to find a place where he could ask sceptical questions about faith, God and the Universe. During this time he discovered CS Lewi...

#163 Matthew Brown: What would Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis discuss?

24 Jun 2024
00:36:08

Hollywood director Matthew Brown, who directed and co-wrote Freud's Last Session, shares his thoughts on two of the greatest minds of the 20th Century. The film, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode and Liv Lisa Fries, raises questions a...

#162 Alister McGrath: Is there still a place for Lewis in today’s society?

17 Jun 2024
00:15:16

We continue our conversation with Professor Alister McGrath answering live questions, including who influenced Lewis’ faith journey, whether there’s an expiry date on his relevance and how Lewis has impacted Alister’s own theology.  + Subscribe to...

#161 Alister McGrath: Your questions answered

10 Jun 2024
00:17:50

Professor Alister McGrath joined Ruth Jackson for a webinar answering live questions about CS Lewis, including how Lewis used modern media, whether there is a "modern day Lewis" and how we navigate some of the potentially racist terms within his work...

#160 Malcolm Guite: Poetry and a baptised imagination

3 Jun 2024
00:21:00

In this third and final part, Rev Dr Malcolm Guite, Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University answers questions about CS Lewis on Narnia, The Pilgrim's Regress and poetry. This is taken from the Q&A after his presentation ‘A Little Inca...

159 Malcolm Guite: The true myth

27 May 2024
00:30:43

In the second part of his presentation, Rev Dr Malcolm Guite, Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University shares his thoughts about Lewis' poem 'Reason', looking at his relationship with imagination and rationality. This talk was originally g...

#158 Malcolm Guite: Was Lewis a poet?

20 May 2024
00:21:10

Rev Dr Malcolm Guite, Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University shares his thoughts about Lewis' imaginative vision as a writer. This talk was originally given at a CS Lewis symposium called Now We Have Faces, which was hosted by The CS Lew...

#157 Kathy Keller: One of the last people to correspond with Lewis before his death

13 May 2024
00:21:12

As we approach the one year anniversary of apologist Tim Keller's death on May 19th, we caught up with his wife Kathy Keller who corresponded with CS Lewis as a child. Why did she write to Lewis? How did he respond? What are some of the stories he sh...

#156 Phil Knox: Lord All matey or Lord Almighty?

6 May 2024
00:16:37

Did Jesus have favourites? What does good friendship look like? Can we can call God friend? Why does Lewis consider friendship "the most spiritual of loves"? Is Christian frienship greater than non-Christian friendship? Phil Knox, author of The Best...