C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis and Contraception

C. S. Lewis's writings betray no formal stance on contraception, though a close reading reveals his critical gaze on the topic, prohibited from speech by a sense of prudence. Continue Reading »

3 Nov 2022

Why We Walk

by Timothy Jacobson

Neither Lewis nor our Lord, along their respective damp and dusty ways, hiked. They walked. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2022

A Grief Philosophized

by Mark Bauerlein

Michael Cholbi joins the podcast to discuss his book, Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2022

Heaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of Love.” In saying this, however, he did not seem to have in mind what many of us might -immediately hope for or suppose. To be sure, in one of his Miscellanies, asking himself “whether the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2022

Reading Lewis

by Gilbert Meilaender

The subtitle of this book characterizes it as a “guide” to The Abolition of Man. Potential readers might, therefore, ask themselves: What does Michael Ward mean in calling his book a “guide”? And why should a guide be needed for a book that (with rather large print) runs to only a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2021