God bless Malcolm and CS lewis foundation

The virtue turns vice misaplied. The virtues have gone mad they have been isolated from each other @5:25, I wonder in what way?

All us lovers of Jack owe a big debt to Walter Hooper, I think his love for Jack was felt in every new book he put out.

amin w'amin

I understand how Beauty, Imagination, and Glory can open a door to faith but how can they lead to repentance, the necessary prerequisite to faith? Acts 20:21 "I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus."

"God's fingerprints are all over creation." This reminded me of Ben Stein's interview of Richard Dawkins in the documentary "Expelled". Dawkins alluded to, as he often has, the appearance of the signature of a designer at the microbiological level but before Dawkins could pontificate and blather about how there actually is no Designer, Stein innocently asked him how he would explain how it all looks so designed at a staggering level of complexity. Amazingly Dawkins cited Crick's theory of Directed Panspermia, that ALIENS seeded the universe with genetic material that eventually became us. Obviously begging the question of where the aliens came from, Dawkins came off looking quite the fool (in the Biblical sense).

Okay, okay, you've convinced me to give that Calvinist goof another try, geez. 😂 I've been a lifelong Lewis fan and felt especially called out by this. I was aware of how much Lewis loved abd and took inspo fron MacDonald, but I could never get into him and found his Great Divorce cameo jarring. I recently reread GD and wondered why I was so put off by the cameo originally. Made me think I need to reread his writings as a now older human with less prejudice towards different schools of theology. I think when i was first getting into Lewis, I felt very defensive towards certain theologians. Now I'm embracing the beauty of appreciating people we may not always agree with. ❤ Thanks for a lovely lecture!

I met Walter in our Anglican days at ST MAry Mags in Oxford in the early 80's where he was on the clergy team and I was unemployed. I served him at "mass" and he was a great support during that sad period for me

Brilliant. So encouraging. This will change my life. Thankyou. ❤🥲

4/27/2024.....i just heard the Sower's song for the first time today! it touched me, the researcher in me had to google and find more about the singer,That's what led me here....what a divine setup from God....i needed to here this message because at 45 i am one of those who still is asking GOD what is my calling.....

Read the book, “Psycho Heresy,” by Martin Bobgan.

Watching in '24, covid in the rear mirror. Found Mr. Bunn with The Sign Painter..as a homeless, it was like fantasy, thar any group of people would care like that. But that's just my experience. After that, Dreams, and on to (California-based) Miramar Bay. He has a diversity of stories, with, like, the greatest characters! Love the theme of second ( and more) chances. I'm praying for a second chance..

Catholic here. This Text is prayed in Vespers. It is wonderful. This is the Anglican Church I love.

Idk what he’s talking about but I think he’s full of it. I like listening tho

I too have just discovered Malcolm through his pipe smoking and story telling. To find out he's also saying this great stuff too is awesome!

The poem by Roberto Juarroz, as translated by WS Merwin, is breathtaking -- 'the intertwining' ... 'let's us be a sign in the void' -- of course, it must be relational

Great unpacking of Luke’s Temptation - thank you!

I love DBH and respect his opinions but I was very disapointed to hear his stance on comics. So many masterpieces and great literature in that genre: Vinland Saga, Berserk, Watchmen, Sandman, V for Vendetta.

This is absolutely compelling and ignites my spark for God. Malcom makes me believe ❤

Thank you for this wonderful conversation. Blessings from Belfast Northern Ireland.

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How do you define and understand the term “soul”?

Exactly, Lewis gave me vocabulary for my soul! Having read many of his books, for a beginner I would definitely recommend starting with Pilgrim regress...

Beautiful. Thank you for reading. Thank you for posting. I’m inspired to be intentional and to think, to plant seeds and to walk creeks. A beautiful world the creator has made for us. Much love.

This was an extraordinarily refreshing homily. I have been an Episcopalian my whole life and haven't heard such wisdom and clarity in a decade or more. Thank you so much for penetrating to the heart and reminding me how powerful our faith is. The Lord be with you.

Brilliant Malcolm God bless you

I now know that by the measure I love God is equal to how much I love others.

Amen

Thank you brother for such an insightful and diligent exposition of this passage celebrating the exclusivity of Christ!

Such a joy to join the C.S. Lewis Foundation as Steve and Stan’s assistant all those years ago. To journey to multiple conferences in the States and England. For such a time as this.❤️

God gives us gifts all over the place we need open our eyes to see them

Stan was one of the best, Godly people I have ever met. It was always a pleasure to sit with him and listen to his wisdom, his passion for the Kingdom and his life's work with the C.S. Lewis Foundation. He was one of a kind.

I completely forgot that there was a boy mom in Great Divorce. 🤣 I absolutely loved this discussion. It hit all my favs from Miyazaki to Augustine and was just what I needed going into 2024. Brilliantly and beautifully articulated! Thinking about the concept of nature as both a state of peace for ourselves and it's dark twin as a state of complacency, it makes me think of Princess Mononoke and Ashitaka's decision to leave the forest. He had everything he personally wanted at the end of the movie; peace, beauty, love, etc. He'd seen the worst of humanity, but unlike San he didn't reject his humanness and chose to continue to have a role in the world, advocating for goodness. It's a bit like the idea of becoming a solitary monk on a hilltop vs the conviction to be an active participant in the world around us. A few of the folks in Great Divorce are so afterlife focused that they become similarly complacent. I think the concept of every beautiful thing having a dark side when it removes us from our connection with the rest of creation and becomes self serving is a really interesting concept to consider. "We long not for what we remember, but what we've never experienced at all, only sensed beneath reality's surface." - Miyazaki on rejecting the concept of nostalgia. It's so interesting how this quote is near identical to Lewis' ideas about the island and prim rose field in Pilgrim's Regress.

I'm sorry, but if you think Marx's vision posited man as homo economicus, you've completely misread him. He argued the opposite - and pointed out that it is capitalism that so conceives of human beings. Nor can Marx be blamed in the slightest for Leninism or Stalinism.

Hi. I enjoy every second of this movie. Walter hooper was a real blessing to this world. I loved him

Fantastic discussion! I would suggest some additional nuances regarding Williams and occultism in /That Hideous Strength/. The interview question seemed focused on the depiction in that book of an unholy alliance between materialist science and ritualistic occultism. I agree with Dr. Higgins that the scene between Jane and Ransom is creepy, but I would also note this is intentional. There’s a suggestion in that scene that Jane’s feelings are the result of a demonic influence that Ransom banishes by yelling “Stop it!” (To Jane? The demon? Or--most likely, in my mind-to both.) I think the scene suggests that Lewis was picking up on the darker possibilities behind Williams’s charisma, though I would agree it also bolsters the idea that Lewis was unaware, or repressed his awareness, of that charisma actually breaking forth in a destructive way. Ransom rejects the psychosexual obedience that’s offered to him, which is what Lewis seems to think Williams was doing. Lewis also depicts Merlin in this book as a neutral figure who has to be exhumed, not only to destroy evil, but to redeem his own soul from the effects of the ritual magic he performed in his lifetime. (This, as many here would know, evokes one traditional or folk view of the fae-that they were angels who refused to take sides in the war on Heaven and are now cursed to wander the earth.) Thus, Merlin is not an unalloyed good figure, even though he’s fighting for “the good guys.” The book is hardly great literature, but it’s such a fun read, not only because of its madcap plot, but because you can feel Lewis wrestling with his attractions to, and concerns about occultism and mysticism.

Jump to 28:35 to skip the baseball talk...

Thanks Andrew. I long for home Everytime you speak

Lewis's description of The Abolition of Man always reminds me of The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg have no culture, no humanity, just the collective.

This was lovely! I got so much out of this !

This is a great! Thanks for posting this interview! I came here for the conversation around children's literature, but I really appreciated the insight regarding baseball. Thanks to all involved!

33:40 "...[the ideal in writing a children's book] is not to presume that children are stupid... ...the mind expands the brain, it doesn't work the other way around-neural plasticity. we are spirit before we are flesh."

Out of the mouth of babes comes wisdom

Happy to see DBL in a conversation that he seemed to enjoy. This was a wonderful interview.

Loved it! Shared on Facebook! Thank You! 😍

Wow, I felt a stab of pain when Mr. Hart said only the first book in the Wrinkle in Time series was any good. A Wrinkle in Time is great, but my favorite in the series was always "Many Waters", followed by "A Wind in the Door". Although, I've always been more literary-minded than mathematically, so I've always identified more with Vicky Austin from the Austin Family Chronicles than I did with Meg Murry.

Love your lecture! The book is so inspiring and well written!

I wish Mr.Hart would have discussed some current children's lit authors, such as Katherine Rundell. Otherwise, he and his brother, Addison Hodges Hart, are always compelling speakers and authors. Thanks for posting this interview!

There is great strength in gentlemen. I'm so glad to learn that Mr. Lewis liked chocolate and his imaginative sense of humor too.

I remember learning some years ago that a quality which C.S. Lewis possessed was unfailing courtesy. I see this quality profoundly in Mr. Hooper, a courtesy born from faith and love. I was moved by Tolkien's sensitivity to Mr. Hooper's grief. May he rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him.