Pints with Jack.

Season 3, episode 17.

C.S. Lewis in the authentic self.

Good morning, friends, and welcome to Pints with Jack, a podcast where two enthusiastic

C.S. Louis amateurs get together, share a beverage, and discuss

a work of C.S. Lewis. This season, we're reading till we have faces. Except, if you haven't

noticed yet, this is a different episode. Usually, David is giving these introductions and creating clever names to introduce me.

Unfortunately, that will not be happening today. Because this week, we are releasing a, and I say

this week, but I mean today, we are releasing a talk that I gave at Notre Dame at the Edith

Stein conference. They asked me to give a talk on C.S.

Lewis and authenticity. The theme of the conference with authenticity. And for regular listeners

who have gone through season one, there's a lot in mere Christianity. And so in this talk,

I went through my journey. So I wanted it to be as authentic as

possible. So I was pretty vulnerable with my own personal story, high school, college,

struggles with Christianity, atheism, identity, and ultimately what brought me to Christianity, which was C.S. Lewis. And ultimately, which brought me to

my Catholic faith and the love of the Eucharist and the Mass. And also was, interestingly enough,

C.S. Lewis. And how that led to finding my true self, living authentically, and what I do every day to nurture

that, to grow further in that. And so I am really excited. Please don't judge, have some grace.

This was the first time I'd given this talk. So it's not been, obviously, I prepped and refined it

in preparation for this talk, but this is not some routine talk I give.

This was the very first time.

And I will say it's very intimidating going back to your alma mater with a bunch of students in front of you who, they're not your peers anymore.

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