23 episodes
Lewis Festival Scholar Series C.S Lewis Festival
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A series of CS Lewis Festival’s lecture archives featuring some of the finest and most respected authors, lecturers, and scholars in the world…. on C.S. Lewis. You can easily navigate the list of speakers covering specific themes including C.S. Lewis and War; The Surprising Imagination of C. S. Lewis; C.S. Lewis in Music and Poetry: The Divine Comedy; C.S. Lewis and Film; and Women and C.S. Lewis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------There are also stand-alone video interviews with renowned authors including Philip Yancey, Ann Voskamp, and Dr. Jerry Root. These may be watched at https://www.youtube.com/@c.s.lewisfest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Now it’s time to enter the wardrobe and do a deep dive on C. S. Lewis!
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"Arguing with Jack" Sarah Arthur, Ep. 3 LFSS Season 5
Today’s podcast features Festival Co-Founder Sarah Arthur. Sarah is the author of a dozen nonfiction books on the intersection of faith and great literature. She shares a profound, multifaceted talk on her love of Lewis and her argument with him based on the Festival’s 2022 theme, “Women and C.S. Lewis.” For more information on the annual C.S. Lewis Festival that takes place every September, please visit us at cslewisfestival.org.
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"Reflections and Women and C.S. Lewis" Ann Voskamp Ep. 2 LFSS Season 5
Ann Voskamp was the featured speaker in 2022 at the annual C.S. Lewis Festival in Petoskey, Michigan. Her talk, Reflections and Women and C.S. Lewis, took place at the Saturday Seminar at Great Lakes Center for the Arts. It is a story of women, C.S. Lewis, and a story that moves far beyond the walls of the world. For more information on the annual C.S. Lewis Festival that takes place every September, please visit us at cslewisfestival.org.
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"On Jack, Struggles, Joy, and WAYMAKER" Ann Voskamp Ep. 1 LFSS Season 5
The C.S. Lewis Festival welcomed best-selling author Ann Voskamp as keynote speaker in 2022. At a sold-out event at Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Ann talked about the joy combined with the profound struggles she went through in writing her latest book WAYMAKER: Finding the way to the life you’ve always dreamed of. It is a deeply personal and moving talk and includes a poignant sit-down discussion with Festival Co-Founder Sarah Arthur. For more information on the annual C.S. Lewis Festival that takes place every September, please visit us at cslewisfestival.org.
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"What does it take to be intentional..." Kristen Johnson Ep. 3 LFSS Season 4
This episode features Kristen Johnson, Professor of Theology and Christian Formation at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. In 2018, Kristen was named as one of the "New Female Theologians Worth Knowing" by Christianity Today. This recording is of her lecture "The Inner Ring: How C.S. Lewis can help us Engage Friendship, Community and our Deep Differences." Many writers and thinkers are asking questions about how we can navigate the deep differences of our age. In a memorable lecture delivered in 1944, C.S. Lewis probed what he believed to be a permanent aspect of human existence, namely our desire to be on the inside
of the "inner ring" and our terror at the prospect of being left on the outside. Kristen explores this in a very engaging and profoundly enlightening talk. -
"Life has no better gift to give" Providential Friendship by Trygve Johnson, Ep. 2 of LFSS Season 4
Hear Trygve Johnson share on a deeply personal and profound topic, Providential Friendship: How God used a simple friendship to inspire the imagination of the Christian faith. His talk delves into the concept of providence in friendships and the specific, God-inspired friendship of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.
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"Where the Light Fell" Philip Yancy: Ep.1 of LFSS Season 4
David Crouse sits down with Philip at the majestic Great Lakes
Center for the Arts in Bay Harbor, Michigan. Over 300 attended in what turned out to be a deeply personal interview with Philip on the cusp of the launch of, what Philip said, is the most important book he’s ever written, his auto-biography, Where the Light Fell. Publishers Weekly calls it “a gripping memoir”.
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Episode 1, Season 3
Episode 1, Season 3 - I checked the date - 2015 - pre-Trump.
I was utterly disappointed by Loconte’s masculinized reading of Tolkien and Lewis. Loconte valorized war (in spite of his protests to the contrary), the very thing Lewis and Tolkien didn’t do - I couldn’t help but feel relief that Loconte’s view of things is clearly on the decline, except among folks like Steve Bannon, Jim Jordan, and Tom Cotton, and their Jan. 6 cohorts, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, all adolescent heroic wannabes engaged in “legitimate public discourse.”
Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, “Jesus and John Wayne” directly addresses the substance, style, and rhetoric of Loconte, a horrendous distortion of the gospel.
Loconte’s dismissal of liberals and progressives gives his agenda away … he’s a violent man in love with violent images. Why? Well, a psychologist might help us here. Beyond that, it gives birth to a terrible theology and politics of power, aggression, and war; on the home front, misogyny, spiritual and exual abuse, power-hungry megachurch operators, and believers stripped of their personhood.
I suspect he was a ready and eager fan of Trump when the time came.
His credentials, of course, make that clear.
I can only say that his gleeful contempt for Tony Campolo is enough to fully discredit Loconte’s ability to address the issues raised by Lewis and Tolkien.
And far below the usual quality of the Series, and its aspirations to reflect the best of Christian scholarship and spiritual integrity.
I regret having to write this review, but Loconte is simply unworthy of the task.