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Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

S4E42 – TSL 21 – “I want it now!”

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today we come to David's least favourite letter from Uncle Screwtape which is on the subject of possessiveness, particularly with regards to time. Joining him today is a returning guest to the show, Sister Natalia from the "What God Is Not podcast", together with another nun from her convent, Sister Petra.

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0:00.0

Pints with Jack, season four, episode 42.

0:04.0

The screw tape letters. Letter 21.

0:06.8

I want it now.

0:14.5

Welcome, everyone.

0:15.9

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

0:21.8

C.S. Lewis. This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior demon,

0:26.1

screw tape, as he explains how to tempt the patient, a human assigned to be tempted by

0:30.6

Scrutap's nephew, Wormwood. Each week will be considering a different letter,

0:34.9

untwisting Scrutpe's hellish logic, and forming a battle

0:37.7

plan for our own spiritual lives. And for my co-host today, we have a returning guest to the show,

0:45.1

Sister Natalia from What God is Not. Welcome. Thanks, it's good to be here. Now, sister,

0:51.8

the last time you're on the show, your final vows had been postponed because of

0:55.7

COVID. Is that still the case? It is. Yeah, I still haven't made my life profession. So we still don't

1:01.8

have any idea of when the official date will be for Buy a Nun a Beer Day? Yeah, I had forgotten that

1:07.8

we had decided that the date of my life profession would become that day.

1:11.6

We need to make this happen soon, so keep me posted.

1:16.2

Okay.

1:17.2

Now, if you recall, the word of the week when Sister Natalia was on the show was dearth.

1:23.5

And we certainly don't have a dearth of guests today.

1:26.9

In fact, we have two. When we were setting up this episode, Sister Natalia asked if she could bring a friend along. So, sister, please introduce our second guest co-host.

1:37.8

Absolutely. So when you asked me to do this podcast, this particular episode, I was thinking that I wanted to have

1:46.1

another nun on the podcast with me. And one of the nuns in our community happens to very much

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