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After D.L. talked about Frank Peretti on the Good Christian Fun podcast , we decided to release this episode for the general public, a Patreon-only episode from a year ago when we talked about The Cooper Kids and The Door in the Dragon's Throat. Become a Patreon for $1.50, $4 or $8 per month and get monthly episodes like this one and dive into our back catalogue of episodes about WOW 1999, Brio Ma...

D.L. and Krispin discuss The Last Battle in the last episode of the series, and D.L. reads an essay we wrote together about the parallels between The Last Battle and American Christianity. Our 6th season, Shamecore Records is coming in March! Join us at our Patreon for some patreon-only episodes until then!

Krispin and Danielle interview artist, Tomatobird about the comic she wrote about Tash from The Last Battle titled "Inexorable" and available to read here . You can follow her on instagram, twitter and tumbler , support her on Patreon , and buy prints of her work in her online store . SHAMECORE RECORDS will be the 6th season of our podcast. Listen to the trailer here , and if you love (or loved) h...

D.L. and Krispin take a break from Narnia to reflect on four years of our podcast analyzing evangelical media - and how conspiracy themes are woven throughout! We discuss how to navigate relationships when you those in your life dismiss the significance of this event. D.L. explains the relational follow-out that occurred in Germany, as D.L. discusses the book Frauen by Owings . If you were disappo...

Torri Williams Douglass is a writer, speaker, educator, and activist. She is the creator of White Homework which is a curriculum designed to help people create their own personalized antiracism plan. The courses were developed as a response to the hundreds of requests she got from individuals asking, “I don’t want to be racist, but what do I DO?” Prior to this, she worked in higher ed, doing recru...

Matt Mikalatos took more time to talk with us about Narnia and C.S. Lewis, with lots of interesting parts we haven't covered in our series - like an eco-critical reading of Narnia, guessing Lewis' enneagram number, Planet Narnia, and how Lewis wrote letters to children explaining the Narnia series in ways he never made public. Thank you Matt and patrons for a wonderful evening! You can sign up and...

Paul Pastor is an editor and writer, and has published a collection of non-ficiton essays about the Holy Spirit called  The Face of the Deep and some books of prayers & meditations called The Listening Day Volume 1 and Volume 2 .  You can find him on Twitter . Or go to his website and write him a lette r! Become a patreon of the podcast at www.patreon.com/dlmayfield and join us for a Narnia Q&...

Alireza Shafiee-Nasab, born in 1990 in Dezful, Iran, is an Iranian translator, literary editor and teacher. You can follow him Instagram or visit his website http://shafieenasab.ir . He holds an MA degree in English literature from the University of Tehran, with a thesis entitled “Christianized Archetypes in The Chronicles of Narnia”, in which he argues that the psychological ideas of Carl Gustav...

Kat Coffin is a musician and an academic specializing in the works of C.S. Lewis and gender theory.  Before you listen to the podcast, maybe check out this wonderful summary Kat Coffin wrote on The Problem of Susan here . Or read this quick Twitter thread summary   Here’s the passage in The Last Battle that makes people so upset about Susan not getting into Aslan’s Country.  JK Rowling on Susan Pe...

Episode 7: Interview with Matt Mikalatos on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Matt Mikalatos is the author of the Sunlit Lands fantasy trilogy, starting with The Crescent Stone . He also writes a bi-weekly column about C.S. Lewis at Tor.com. You can connect with him at www.mikalatos.com . Matt writes about a wide variety of Narnia-related content for Tor. Here is a link to his piece on Eustace and sp...

In the introduction, DL mentions reading the book Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus by Reggie Williams . We highly recommend it ( Go listen to this podcast episode if you want a taste of the book ).  Emily Metcalf is a scholar and artist who focuses on Tolkein and Lewis in both areas. You can find her website with links to her shop here (we highly recommend checking out her Tolkien inspired watercolors!). ...

After watching productions of The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by both BBC (1988) and Disney (2004), Krispin and Danielle discuss the differences, as well as the story itself.  For a stroll down memory lane, you can watch the BBC version on youtube.  Sign up for our patreon here to hear our patreon-only episode next week about Focus on the Family and how they’ve influenced evangelicals to vo...

This episode is mostly about what the Stone Table/Death of Aslan meant in the Chronicles of Narnia. Buckle up for a fascinating deep dive into atonement theories and evangelical theology! Mako Nagasawa served a Spanish-speaking ministry to Mexican immigrants in East Palo Alto, CA and afterward, worked for two startup companies trying to bring technology and jobs to inner city communities. Since 20...

Important note: I (D.L.) say Dr. Cronin is at the University of Florida when in fact she teaches at Florida State University. Me and my West Coast bias/ignorance showing--sorry about that! Dr. Sonya Cronin teaches classes both on the Hebrew Scriptures and Fantasy Literature--which makes her the perfect guest for this podcast. You can visit this site to learn more about her , including her books (a...

A clip of our just-released patreon-only episode talking about evangelicals, politics, and the recent “worship protests” out of Bethel - and how do you talk to family members about why it’s problematic? Become a patreon here , beginning at $1.50/month and get a monthly episode, access to our facebook group and more!

Link to her biography and faculty page here . Buy her incredibly detailed, thoughtful, academic book Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Questions to consider when reading books like The Chronicles of Narnia: What are these stories, what are they doing, and how did they become so ingrained in American culture? How do these stories both aliant people and...

Welcome to Season 5 of The Prophetic Imagination Station Podcast: The Lion, The Witch, and The Evangelicals. In this episode Krispin and D.L. discuss what the chronicles of Narnia is, a bit about Lewis’ background when he was writing the books, and their own experiences growing up evangelical and reading them. For a good overview of the seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia, go here .  The main...

Starting September 14, we will launch into a series on The Chronicles of Narnia, interviewing several experts and also discussing our own experiences with this series. We're asking why American evangelicals resonated so deeply with an author who was neither American, nor evangelical - and what still enchants us about this series today.

We decided to make our Patreon-only episode available for everyone this month to get a sense of what our episodes are like. We dissect one piece of evangelical media each month - prior months have been Focus on the Family's Brio Magazine and WOW 1999, as well as others. This month We discuss a 1970's Christian claymation cartoon - Davy and Goliath, and the topic is racism. Watch Davy & Goliath...

Krispin and Danielle reflect on the past season of Frank Peretti's America. TW: We discuss sexual abuse. Check out Danielle's new book, The Myth of the American Dream ! We mention in the episode. And don't miss our discussion of WOW 1999 on our patreon-only podcast .

Krispin talks with Connie Baker about the psychology of why churches end up protecting abusers and discrediting those who speak up about abuse. She is the author of Traumatized by Religious Abuse and facilitates a facebook group with 500+ members about religious abuse.

Leah Payne a professor of Christian studies at George Fox University, author of Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century and co-host for The Weird Religion Podcast. We talked with her about pentacolism in the broader history of the church and how Peretti’s book led the way for traditions that had previously been disregarded to make a big impact on...

Joshua Pease is a pastor, author, and journalist , and all-around smart guy. In this interview, we focus mainly on his work in regards to conspiracy theories and abuse within evangelical churches. Note for those listening, there is some discussion of sensitive topics, including abuse. RAINN is a great resource for sexual abuse survivors, including live chat and phone options for support. Here is h...

Welcome to a special quarantine edition of the Prophetic Imagination Station season 4: Frank Peretti’s imagination. Today we break up all the This Present Darkness talk to do a little deep dive into Carman--and specifically, the song Revival in the Land . Watch, and then listen to us jabber about it! Intro: Hi, we are going stir-crazy so we did a  lip sync to Carman’s song Satan Bite the Dust. And...

Brad Jersak is the author of several books, including Her Gates Will Never Be Shut and Incarnation & Inclusion , two of Krispin’s favorites. He’s appeared on many podcasts, this one with Jonathan Martin on Hell, Judgment & Atonement . Summing up what prayer is in This Present Darkness: “Our prayers were like the batteries that energized the angels” The title of the book comes from Ephesian...