Since we’ve just moved our hosting over to Spotify, we’re now able to post video episodes, so we decided to test-drive it with today’s Half Pint…
Andrew found out that his bishop’s daughter recently discovered C. S. Lewis, so he invited her onto the show to found out how it was going…
Half Pint with Sophia Holcomb (“Discovering C. S. Lewis”) (Download)
Show Notes
- Andrew’s boss is Bishop Justin Holcomb
“I never read more than a page and a half of a book I didn’t enjoy.”
C. S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion’, to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. However that is very clumsily put, and sounds more self-important than I feel. For as a matter of fact, I have consciously planned very little; and should chiefly be grateful for having been brought up (since I was eight) in a Faith that has nourished me and taught me all the little that I know; and that I owe to my mother, who clung to her conversion and died young, largely through the hardships of poverty resulting from it.
J. R. R. Tolkien (Letter #142)
- Andrew mentioned the essay called “Variation in Shakespeare and Others” from Rehabilitation and Other Essays
- Andrew mentioned his book, Mere Christians, as well as the book through which he met his wife, Women and C.S. Lewis
- Sophia referred to our interview with Patti Callahan about Becoming Mrs. Lewis
- Sophia’s podcast is Kids Talk Church History
