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Focuses on the life and writings of C.S. Lewis. Mostly via interviews with authors of books about him. Sometimes short talks.
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Monday May 04, 2015
Monday May 04, 2015
Back in 2007 a four-volume set entitled C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy was released. Dr. Bruce Edwards edited this ambitious effort. William O’Flaherty caught up with him recently to discuss this reference work that is often overlooked because it is priced for libraries and not the general public. In this podcast Dr. Edwards provides some insight into how this 1,400 page effort came to be, along with giving some highlights of what you will find in volumes one and two. The first book focus on “An Examined Life” and the second details with Lewis as “Fantasist, Mythmaker, and Poet.”
- Purchase C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy (from Amazon)
- Purchase eBook version of C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy
- Visit The C.S. Lewis Review (Dr. Edward's Website)
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Dr. Bruce Edwards
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Colin Duriez
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Dr. David Downing
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Devin Brown
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Dr. Don King
Monday Apr 27, 2015
Monday Apr 27, 2015
The following is the panel discussion from the 2015 Inklings Fellowship (IF) Weekend Retreat. It was just held on Sunday, April 19th at Montreat College in North Carolina. William O'Flaherty moderated the time with guests, Colin Duriez, Dr. Crystal Hurd, Dr. Don King and Carolyn Curtis. All but Carolyn was one of the speakers at the retreat (she has a forthcoming book related to the weekend theme). While the time allotted to the panel was much shorter than typical, they are able to address seven questions that include how Lewis's idea of the fantastic inspires one's faith and advise for women show study Lewis and the Inklings.
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- Purchase A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems (Dr. Don King)
- Purchase Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil (Colin Duriez)
- Pre-order Women and C.S. Lewis (Due out July, 2015)
- Visit Inklings Fellowship Website
- Hear 2015 Interview about Inklings Fellowship Retreat
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Colin
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Crystal
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Dr. Don King
Panel Speakers Websites:
Monday Apr 20, 2015
Monday Apr 20, 2015
- Where does Lewis derive his authority for his ideas?
- What was Lewis's beliefs about Universalism?
- What advice could you give on the writing process and the preparation of and introduction to Christian apologetics for someone wanting to be an author?
- Why did the Lewis/Tolkien friendship breakdown?
- What would you advise a student considering whether or not to do a graduate degree?
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Monday Apr 13, 2015
- Tell us about your first encounter with the writings of C.S. Lewis...how old were you and what were your impressions?
- What daily habit would you recommend for those growing in their appreciation of literature and the literary arts?
- Owen Barfield, of the seven authors collection at the Wade Center is one of the least read and discussed..so, what works should a person begin with?
- I heard Jerry Root recommend Dymer (poetry book by Lewis); why do you and any thoughts on Spirits in Bondage?
- Would you suggest a reading schedule for a young scholar; and ideal and practical one?
- Where do we see Joy's influence and/or contributions in Till We Have Faces?
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Monday Apr 06, 2015
C.S. Lewis wrote many statements that standalone as great short quotations. However, some quotes when isolated from their context are actually problematic. That is, apart from their setting they often yield a very different understanding of what Lewis meant. Then there are quotes attributed to Lewis that are actually a incorrect paraphrase of something he wrote. This podcast explores these issues. It is William O'Flaherty presenting a twenty minute paper at the recent CSLIS conference that was held in Grove City, PA this year (late March, 2015). See below to read the actual paper and listen to a previous talk about quotations falsely attributed to Lewis.
Monday Mar 30, 2015
Monday Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Jerry Root is a well respected scholar on C.S. Lewis and a much sought after speaker in general. Jerry sat down with William O'Flaherty just before the start of the CSLIS conference (that was held at Grove City this year) to talk about a forthcoming book entitled The Surprising Imagination of C.S. Lewis that is due out in September (2015). Dr. Root is an Associate Professor at Wheaton College and Director of Wheaton Evangelism Initiative, Billy Graham Center for Evangelism.
Monday Mar 23, 2015
Monday Mar 23, 2015
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is an essay that is indirectly a follow-up to the successful book The Screwtape Letters. Brenton Dickieson joins William O’Flaherty for an essay chat on this insightful piece that Wormwood never got to hear. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1959 (see below for a link to read it online) before being reprinted several times. The best place to get in print is either in The World’s Last Night or some editions of The Screwtape Letters. This is part of an occasional series exploring a single essay by Lewis to encourage you to read (or re-read) it and other essays by him that are often neglected.
Monday Mar 16, 2015
Monday Mar 16, 2015
Colin Duriez has written about C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien many times over his writing career as an expert on the two. But only this year (2015) has he come out with a book exploring the two of them along with a group of other friends who often met twice a week. The Oxford Inklings takes a look at the origins of this group that is often falsely called a "writer's group." In this chat with William O'Flaherty, he explains why it was much more while giving insightful details about the lives of the key members of this influential circle.
Sunday Mar 15, 2015
Sunday Mar 15, 2015
Wednesday Mar 11, 2015
Wednesday Mar 11, 2015
I decided to combine two recent episodes about a couple of gatherings that are happening in five weeks or less from the release of this program. The first is a conference held by the C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Society at the end of March, 2015; this year it will be in Grove City, PA. The other is a retreat in NC called An Inklings Weekend in Montreat that is two weekends after Easter. There are links below to each complete interview, along with the links for more details about each event.
Monday Mar 02, 2015
Monday Mar 02, 2015
Monday Feb 23, 2015
Monday Feb 23, 2015
Various editions of The Screwtape Letters was released over the years during the month of February. In light of that an encore of a previous podcast related to Screwtape is posted today. Back in 2012 Brenton Dickieson was one of several individuals who read a paper at the 2012 C.S. Lewis Colloquium at Taylor University. For his presentation he read the highlights of "The Pedagogical Value of The Screwtape Letters for a New Generation" (see link below to read the complete paper). He also shared a Prezi presentation during the talk (that you can watch by following the l http:// ink below).
Monday Feb 16, 2015
Monday Feb 16, 2015
"Meditation in a Toolshed" was the tenth essay chat William O'Flaherty did back in 2012. Dr. Bruce Edwards, Professor Emeritus of English and Africana Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, is the guest for this discussion. "Meditation in a Toolshed" is a fairly short essay that is a favorite among Lewis scholars. It is best found in God in the Dock essay collection. Learn about the background to this shorter work from Lewis and a few of the key points made in it that will either introduce to this great piece or remind you about it.
Monday Feb 09, 2015
Monday Feb 09, 2015
There have been eBook versions of various book by C.S. Lewis for some time. However, unless you were a computer wiz there wasn't an easy way to search multiple books by Lewis. However, soon that will all change. William O'Flaherty recently spoke with Joel Muddamalle from Logos Bible Software about a 30 book collection of works by Lewis that is scheduled to release by the first week of March, 2015. Before it releases you can save over $100 off the regular list price. Learn more about this collection and what you can do with it either on its own or with Logos Bible Software.
Monday Feb 02, 2015
Monday Feb 02, 2015
The 2015 Inklings Weekend is approaching soon. The Inklings Fellowship will have it in Montreat (N.C.) April 17-19. Dr. Hal Poe, who is from the organizing group, is the guest for the show. The theme this year is "The Inklings and the Ladies," as it's the centennial anniversary of the birth of Joy Davidman (Lewis's wife). Speakers at the event include Colin Duriez, Dr. Crystal Hurd and Dr. Don King. He also shares about another events they have in March called "Christianity in the Academy Conference."
Learn more about the Montreat, NC Weekend
- Contact Hal at 731-661-5404 or email: hpoe@uu.edu
- Visit Colin Duriez's Website
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Colin
- Visit Dr. Crystal Hurd's Website
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Crystal
- Listen to Previous Interviews with Dr. Don King
- Visit EssentialCSLewis.com