S4E31 – AH – “After Hours” with Steven Beebe

The last time he was on the show, Dr. Steven Beebe explained to us why C.S. Lewis was a master communicator. In today’s episode he returns to examine the communication techniques of everybody’s least favourite Uncle, Screwtape…

S4E31: “After Hours” with Dr. Steven Beebe (Download)

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Timestamps

00:00Entering “The Eagle & Child”…
00:10Welcome
00:41Dr. Steven Beebe
01:26Chit-Chat
02:17Quote-of-the-week
02:57Drink-of-the-week
03:47Patreon Toast
04:03Beebe and Lewis
10:00Screwtape: Master Communicator
49:04“Last Call” Bell and Closing Thoughts

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Show Notes

Opening Chit-Chat

Biographical Information

Dr. Steven Beebe is Regents’ and University Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of Communication Studies for 28 years and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication for 25 years. Dr. Beebe has been a Visiting Scholar at both Oxford and Cambridge University. He teaches courses that focus on communication skill development. He also teaches a course, both at Texas State and Oxford University, titled C. S. Lewis: Chronicles of a Master Communicator inspired by a manuscript he discovered, that was the partial opening chapter of a book that was to be co-authored with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis called Language and Human Nature.

Biographical information about Steven Beebe

Quote-of-the-week

“In modern Christian writings, though I see much… about Mammon, I see few of the old warnings about Worldly Vanities, the Choice of Friends, and the Value of Time. All that, your patient would probably classify as “Puritanism” — and may I remark in passing that the value we have given to that word is one of the really solid triumphs of the last hundred years? By it we rescue annually thousands of humans from temperance, chastity, and sobriety of life.

The Screwtape Letters (Letter 10)

Drink-of-the-week

  • Since we’re recording this during the end of the Christmas season, the drink-of-the-week is hot cocoa.

Patreon Toast

Grace, may you always be able to clearly say what you mean, and really mean what you say. Cheers!

Patreon toast to Grace Eakin

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After working as a Software Engineer in England for several years, David moved to the United States in 2008, where he settled in San Diego. Then, in 2020 he married his wife, Marie, and moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin. Together they have a son, Alexander, who is adamant that Narnia should be read publication order.