Pints with Jack, season 4, episode 31.

After Hours with Dr. Stephen Beebe.

Welcome, everyone.

Pints with Jack is your weekly CS-Lewis podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I break down and discuss the works of C.S. Lewis.

This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior demon, Screwtape,

as he explains how to tempt the patient,

a human assigned to be tempted by Screwtape's nephew, Wormwood.

Each week we'll be considering a different letter,

untwisting Screwtape's hellish logic, and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives.

However, today is a Thursday, and it's there for an after-hours episode.

And today we have a returning guest, Dr. Stephen Beebe, who, if you recall, is Regents and University

distinguished professor of communication studies.

He served as chair of the Department of Communication Studies for 28 years,

and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication for 25 years. Dr. Beebe has been a visiting

scholar at both Oxford and Cambridge University. He teaches courses that focus on communication

skill development. He also teaches a course, both at Texas State and Oxford University, titled

C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of a Master Communicator, inspired by a manuscript he discovered that was the

partial opening chapter of a book that was to be co-authored with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis,

called Language and Human Nature. Dr. Beebe, welcome back to Pines for Jack. It's my great

pleasure to be here. I'm looking forward to the visit. Thank you. What have you been up to since

last appearing on Pines for Jack? How have you been faring in the COVID world? Well, I've mostly

been staying home. I'm getting familiar with Zoom software like lots of other folks,

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