Season 7

This season we looked at Lewis’ letters, chiefly Letters to an American Lady, but also looked at his Letters to Children and Latin Letters. For our Narnia book, we concluded the series with The Last Battle. In addition to various “After Hours” episode, we also did a series on George MacDonald, as well as another series of “Jack’s Bookshelf” examining authors who shaped Lewis’ thought.

Prelude (November)

In these episodes we’ll kick off the season and celebrate the newly-established “C.S. Lewis Reading Day”…

• S7E1 – “Welcome to Season 7!”
• S7E2  – AH – “Inaugural C. S. Lewis Reading Day”, After Hours with Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer

Letters to an American Lady (December 2024)

We’ll read through Lewis’ correspondence with Mary Willis Washburne…

• S7E3 – LAL 1 – “Dear Mrs. Shelburne…”
• S7E4 – LAL 2 – “Dear Mary…”
• Bonus – Interview with Ruth Jackson on “What did Christmas mean to Lewis?”
• S7E5 – LAL 3 – “The Other American Lady…”
• S7E6 – LAL 4 – “Troubling News”
• S7E7 – LAL 5 – “Yours, Jack”
• Bonus – Interview with Lorehaven on “How Did Lewis and Tolkien Celebrate and Critique Christmas?”

“After Hours” Month (January 2023)

The gang interview a bunch of guests…

• S7E8 – AH – “Lewis on the Christian Life”, After Hours with Dr. Joe Rigney
• S7E9 – AH – “C. S. Lewis in America”, After Hours with Dr. Mark Noll
• S7E10 – AH – “The Major and the Missionary”, After Hours with Dr. Diana Glyer
• S7E11 – AH – “My Journey”, After Hours with Will Vaus
• S7E12 – AH – “Letters From Jack”, After Hours with Dr. Diana Glyer
• S7E13 – AH – “Northrop Frye”, After Hours with Angelina Stanford

Letters to Children (February 2024)

Moving on from Letters to an American Lady, we’ll then turn to Letters to Children.

• S7E14 – LC 1 – “Little Jacksie”
• S7E15 – LC 2 – “Dear children…”
• S7E16 – LC 3 – “Loving Aslan”

The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis (March 2024)

In our last letter collection for the season, we read The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis with Don Giovanni Calabria.

• S7E17 – LL 1 – “Praeclarissime ut Frater” (Introduction)
• S7E18 – LL 2 – “Ut omnes unum sint” (1947-1948)
• S7E19 – LL 3 – “Oremus semper pro invicem” (1948-1953)
• S7E20 – LL 4 – “Vale, sodes et pater” (1953-1961)

“Jack’s Bookshelf” Month (April 2023)

We once again consider the authors and books which shaped Lewis’ thought…

• S7E21 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Plato”
• S7E22 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Boethius”
• S7E23 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Julian of Norwich”
• S7E24 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Edmund Spencer”
• S7E25 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Charles Williams”

“Narnia” Month (May 2024)

We read our Narnian Chronicle for the season and interview authors who have written about Narnia.

• S7E26 – Narnia – “The Last Battle (Part I)”, After Hours with Dr. Christin Ditchfield-Lazo
• S7E27 – Narnia – “The Last Battle (Part II)”, After Hours with Dr. Christin Ditchfield-Lazo
• S7E28 – AH – “Night falls on Narnia”, After Hours with the Lamp-Post Listener
• S7E29 – AH – “Not a Tame Lion”, After Hours with Terry Glaspey
• S7E30 – AH – “The Inkwell Chronicles”, After Hours with J.D. Peabody
• S7E31 – AH – “Why I believe in Narnia”, After Hours with James Como

“George MacDonald” Month (June 2024)

• S7E32 – AH – “MacDonald Month: George’s Story”, After Hours with Joyce McPherson
• S7E33 – AH – “MacDonald Month: George’s Theology”, After Hours with Dr. Kerry Dearborn
• S7E34 – AH – “MacDonald Month: George’s Fairy Tales”, After Hours with Danny Gabelman
• S7E35 – AH – “MacDonald Month: George’s Music”, After Hours with Dr. Amanda Vernon
• S7E36 – AH – “MacDonald Month: In an age of miracles”, After Hours with Dr. Timothy Larsen
• S7E37 – AH – “MacDonald Month: Reading Plan”, After Hours with Jess Lederman
• S7E38 – AH – “MacDonald Month: George’s Anthology (Part I)”, After Hours with Dr. Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson
• S7E39 – AH – “MacDonald Month: George’s Anthology (Part II)”
• S7E40 – Finale – Season Finale

Half Pint Episodes

• Half Pint with Dr. Jason Lepojärvi (“The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis Conference”)
• Half Pint with Haley Stewart (“The Golden Key”)
• Half Pint with Fr. Calvin Robinson (“Building Jerusalem”)
• Half Pint with Dr. Jahdiel Perez (“Love is Tears”)
• Half Pint with Nicole Stratton (“Lewis on Stage”)
• Half Pint with Sarah Arthur (“Once a Queen”)
• Half Pint with Justin Wiggins and Matthew Huff (“Sacred Space”)
• Half Pint with Bruce R. Johnson (“The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis”)
• Half Pint with Amber Noel (“The Living Church”)
• Half Pint with Anne Frédérique Caballero (“Jack in France”)
• Half Pint with Dale Ahlquist (“Everlasting Annotations”)
• Half Pint with Kat Coffin (“The Problem of Susan”)