On November 3rd, “The Most Reluctant Convert” will be released in cinemas. This movie is based on the play by “The Fellowship of Performing Arts” and Lewis’ own spiritual autobiography, “Surprised By Joy”, which chronicles his journey to Christianity. Dr. Devin Brown was invited to write the Study Guide for the movie so he came on the show to talk about it.
The Gray Havens are an American Christian folk pop husband and wife duo, David and Licia Radford, from Crystal Lake, Illinois. On October 8th they will be releasing their new album, Blue Flower, so David Radford came on the show to talk to Andrew and David about how C.S. Lewis inspired their recent work.
As we approach the end of Season 4, David is joined on the show by Michael “Gomer” Gormley. Among other things, they discuss Ted Lasso, tea, and the Atonement. Also, find out what Gomer would do if he ever became the Pope!
New York Times bestselling author, Patti Callahan, returns to the show to talk about her forthcoming book, “Once Upon A Wardrobe”, which will be released on October 19th.
A few months ago, John and Greta from The Tolkien Road podcast did a series of episodes on religion in Tolkien’s Legendarium. David invited him onto the show to talk about those episodes and to encourage the Pints With Jack listeners to listen to them.
Author Rod Bennett joined David to talk about a presentation on he gave at a big Christian rock festival about C.S. Lewis’ relationship to “Pulp Fiction”.
Andrew interviewed Max McLean, founder and artistic director of the Fellowship for Performing Arts, who have brought many of Lewis’ works to life on the stage, and who will soon be releasing a movie about Lewis’ life, The Most Reluctant Convert, which will be released on November 3rd.
Over this past Season, co-host Andrew Lazo has appeared on the Upstream podcast with Shane Morris several times. For the next two Thursdays we’ll be sharing the audio from two of these appearances. In today’s episode, Andrew argues for why he thinks “Till We Have Faces” is Lewis’ best book.
Earlier this season in “Barfield Month”, we looked at the life and work of Lewis’ fellow Inkling, Owen Barfield. Only after this special series was concluded did we come across the thoroughly enlightening book by Dr. Stephen Thorson, which is entitled “Joy and Poetic Imagination”. In his book, Dr. Thorson unpacks all the important issues debated between Lewis and Barfield in their “Great War”, many of which are discussed on today’s show with the author.
In both episodes this week, Matt interviews Dr. Harry Lee Poe about the two biographical books he wrote about C.S. Lewis. In today’s episode, he discusses his second book, “The Making of C.S. Lewis”.