Men with Chests

I join Brian Shepherd once again to talk That Hideous Strength.

Christiana Hale joins me to discuss enjoyment and contemplation in Perelandra. This episode was full of insights, one of my favorite episodes yet.

Ransom diagnosis the causes that led to Alcasan's revivification and then gives the prognosis.

Today is the second year of the CSL reading day and this year's theme is friendship. I take a look at the friendships among the Company at St. Anne's in That Hideous Strength.

Continuing the dialogue between Mark, Filostrato, and Straik in Chapter 8 of That Hideous Strength.

I'm returning to That Hideous Strength to take a close look at the N.I.C.E.'s quest to attain immortality.   

I was recently on That Hideous C.S. Lewis podcast with Brian Shepherd to discuss a small portion of That Hideous Strength. Here's the episode from Brian's show.

The final episode of the discussion on Perelandra with Chris Pipkin and Charlie Carter.

The battle between Ransom and the Unman

Charlie, Chris, and I continue to go through Perelandra.

The second installment of my conversation with Chris on The Inklings Variety Hour. This time, we're also joined by Charlie Carter from the Thinklings podcast. 

I was recently on The Inklings Variety Hour with Chris Pipkin to discuss Perelandra. This is part 1 of our discussion.  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inklings-variety-hour/id1526380888

Jordan Duncan from the Lesser-Known Lewis podcast joins me to discuss Lewis's essay "The Poison of Subjectivism." 

The finale of "On Ethics." An essay where Lewis makes the case for the universality of an ethical code. 

We continue our way through Lewis's essay "On Ethics," as he explores the possibility of an ethical vacuum and the idea of instinct as the grounds of ethics. 

We begin a short series today on Lewis's essay "On Ethics." This essay is remarkably similar to Abolition of Man, even containing some of the same phrases found in Abolition. 

We finish Screwtape's toast. Lewis continues to draw out the implications of envy disguised as being "democratic." When "I'm as good as you" becomes the motto a society aims to actualize, disaster follows.    https://www.instagram.com/menwchests/

We continue Screwtape Proposes a Toast, covering the first half of the essay in today's episode. Click the 5 stars if you like the show. You can follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/menwchests/. Check out sisu saunas at https://sisulifestyle.com/. 

"Screwtape Proposes a Toast" is an essay of Lewis's that deals with the issue of egalitarianism in education. This essay, written after The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength, continues on the theme of Lewis's most prophetic writings. In this episode, we cover the preface of the essay, written late in Lewis's life (1962). https://www.instagram.com/menwchests/

In this Sisu Hour episode, I'm joined by Pete Nelson, the owner and founder of Sisu Sauna. You can find his company and their saunas here: https://sisulifestyle.com/ If you like the show, click the 5 stars and you can follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/menwchests/

Today, we finish Lewis's essay.  

Having completed That Hideous Strength, we're now moving on to Lewis's response to a critique of his Ransom Trilogy by J.B.S. Haldane, a contemporary of Lewis's. This essay sheds more light on what Lewis is doing in the Ransom Trilogy and especially That Hideous Strength. This essay is probably the most relevant of all his essays for That Hideous Strength.

Christiana Hale joins me to go through and discuss Chapter 17, the final chapter of That Hideous Strength. https://www.instagram.com/menwchests/

The top officials at the N.I.C.E. meet their end when bedlam ensues at a banquet.  Ironically, after abusing language throughout the story, it turns out that gibberish is the cause of the N.I.C.E.'s destruction. "Qui Verbum Dei contempserunt, eis auferetur etiam verbum hominis,"  Merlin says (They that have despised the word of God, from them shall the word of man also be taken away...

David Downing joins me to discuss his insights into That Hideous Strength. His book, Planets in Peril, was the first study of the Ransom Trilogy. Dr. Downing is one of the foremost Lewis scholars alive today.  https://www.instagram.com/menwchests/