Before we start That Hideous Strength next Season, we review The Abolition of Man…
Narnia Month (November 2025)
We’ll be kicking things off at the Petoskey C. S. Lewis Festival and then having a couple of episodes about Narnia…
- S9E1 – “It’s all in Till We Have Faces!”, After Hours with the Petoskey CS Lewis Festival
- S9E2 – “Matt says ‘Hello’…”
- S9E3 – “Narnia in the Eighties”, After Hours with Dr. Christin Ditchfield Lazo
- S9E4 – “The Joy of Narnia”, After Hours with Terry Lindvall and Cary & Caroline Joseph
After Hours Month (December 2025)
In addition to #CSLewisReadingDay and discussing a Christmas for Pagans and interviewing some guests…
- S9E5 – “Family Love”, #CSLewisReadingDay 2025
- S9E6 – “Between interpretation and imagination”, After Hours with Leslie Baynes
- S9E7 – “The Last Romantic”, After Hours with Dr. Jeffrey Barbeau
- S9E8 – “Christmas for Pagans”, Christmas Special
- S9E9 – Wardrobes and Rings, After Hours with Dr. Julia Golding
The Abolition of Man (January – March 2026)
The Abolition of Man will be our main book this season. Our discussions will be bolstered with reviews of each chapter with special guests…
- S9E10 – Abolition – Ch 1. Pt. 1 (“Pretty Waterfalls”)
- S9E11 – Abolition – Ch 1. Pt. 2 (“Urban Blockheads and Trousered Apes”)
- S9E12 – Abolition – Ch 1. Pt. 3 (“The Abolition of Virtue”)
- S9E13 – Men Without Chests – Review (Dr. Alan Snyder)
- S9E14 – Abolition – Ch 2. Pt. 1
- S9E15 – Abolition – Ch 2. Pt. 2
- S9E16 – Abolition – Ch 2. Pt. 3
- S9E17 – The Way – Review (Dr. Joshua Herring)
- 03-Mar-26: S9E18 – Abolition – Ch 3. Pt. 1
- 10-Mar-26: S9E19 – Abolition – Ch 3. Pt. 2
- 17-Mar-26: S9E20 – Abolition – Ch 3. Pt. 3
- 24-Mar-26: S9E21 – The Abolition of Man – Review (Joseph Weigel)
- 31-Mar-26: S9E22 – Retrospective – Dr. Michael Ward
Charles Williams Month (April 2025)
This was meant to happen last season, but we’ll close out this season with a discussion of Inkling Charles Williams, a perfect preparation for next season’s book, That Hideous Strength.
- 07-Apr-25: S9E23 – The Third Inkling, Grevel Lindop
- 14-Apr-25: S9E24 – Supernatural Stories, Dr. Sørina Higgins
- 21-Apr-25: S9E25 – Friends in Co-inherence, Dr. Paul Fiddes
- 28-Apr-25: S9E26 – Weird Williams, Dr. Sørina Higgins
Jack’s Bookshelf Month (May 2026)
We return to Jack’s Bookshelf to discuss the authors and books which made such a great impact on Lewis.
- 05-May-26: S9E27 – Beowulf – Dr. Ben Reinhard
- 12-May-26: S9E28 – Chaucer – Dr. Simon Horobin
- 19-May-26: S9E29 – Coleridge – Dr. Carolyn Weber
- 26-May-26: S9E30 – Rudolf Otto – Dr. Joe Ricke
Wrap-Up (June 2026)
We’ll wrap up the season with one final episode.
- 02-June-26: S9E31 – Season Finale
Half Pints
- Half Pint with David Baron (“The Martians”)
- Half Pint with John Hendrix (“Mythmakers”)
- Half Pint with Bishop Edward Little II (“The Lesser Feast of C. S. Lewis”)
- Half Pint with D. P. Curtain (“The Scriptorium Project”)
- Half Pint with Kathy Keller (“What’s WRONG with the world?”)
- Half Pint with Brad Gray and Brad Nelson (“The Lord’s Prayer”)
- Half Pint with William O’Flaherty (“The Screwtape Letters Handbook”)
- Half Pint with Brandon Ray and AJ Enfield (“Inkledeaux”)
- Half Pint with Judith McQuoid (“Giant”)
- Half Pint with Stephen Kent (“Geeky Stoics”)
- Half Pint with Ian Faith & Galen Balinski (“Confronting Evil in our Time”)
- Half Pint with Craig Vincent (“Silver Chair and Philosophy”)
- Half Pint with Tilly Dillehay (“My dear Hemlock”)
- Half Pint with Carson Grubaugh (“The Abolition of Comics”)
- Half Pint with Bruce Johnson and Gary Tandy (“Undiscovered 2026”)
- Half Pint with Kaitlyn Facista (“Into the Heart of Middle Earth”)
- Half Pint with Reed Dent (“The Gospel of being Human”)
- Half Pint with Grayson Quay (“The Transhumanist Temptation”)
- Half Pint with Kyle King and Melkite Joe (“Christ the Eternal Tao”)