89: Moses Was A Wizard

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Is a book with a good witch a bad book? The guys use the Wizard of Oz as a jumping off point for this lengthy discussion of magic, which listeners know is a favorite SASF hobbyhorse. Nate claims that moderns have lost an appreciation for the miraculous in an attempt to describe the natural. In reality, everything is magic. But Brian objects: if everything is magical, then nothing is. Nate responds with MOSES AND THE WIZARD DUEL. Of course Tolkien and Lewis -- and Gandalf and Jadis -- also feature in this discussion that will get you thinking about your favorite stories... and how our scientists have crossed the line into witchcraft long ago.#SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #magic #science #Tolkien #CSLewis

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press.
0:07.9	Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.
0:11.8	Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell.
0:14.9	Made a ghost of a king on a row.
0:17.1	One would think as an American fantasy novelist that you would see much in common with
0:23.8	the Wizard of Oz and Frank L. Baum.
0:27.7	But you never talk about him except to say that that's why you said it where you said it.
0:33.7	And so I kind of wanted, I had questions about that.
0:36.8	And in fact, so did other people.
0:38.4	They said, I was just reading this to my daughter and it was weird and she thought it was
0:42.5	problematic, but I'm just more asking you the question.
0:45.8	Problematic.
0:46.6	That's one of those words.
0:47.6	How dare she?
0:50.2	Good thing I didn't mention your name.
0:52.1	I don't know your daughter, but how dare she?
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.2	I think it was problematic.
0:56.3	Okay, why?
0:57.0	Why?
0:57.9	Well, does anybody unpack that?
1:00.4	Why it's problematic?
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