Pints with Jack, Season 4, Episode 51.

After Hours with Owen A. Barfield.

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 screw tape, as he explains how to tempt The Patient, a huge down and discuss the works of C.S. Lewis. This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence

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

by screwtate's nephew, Wormwood. Each week we'll be considering a different letter, untwisting

screwtap's hellish logic and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives. However, today is a

Thursday, meaning that it's an after-hours episode,

and I'll be interviewing a guest to kick off Barfield's month. And today, I'm going to be speaking

to Owen Barfield. Now, listeners, today's episode is published on April Fool's Day,

and so you might think that this episode is an April Fool's joke.

You know, after all, it's 2021. There is no way that CS Lewis's friend, Owen Barfield,

could be talking to us today. And I actually had a similar thought a couple of years ago

when I received an email from Owen Barfield. And after a little bit of confusion and a little bit of Googling,

I discovered that this Owen Barfield was the grandson of the inkling. And he also lived fairly

close to where I grew up. So on my next trip to England, my wife and I got to meet up with Owen

at a lovely pub for a delicious efficient chip meal, about a mile away from the

Benedictine monastery where I normally go to Mass when I'm back home. So with that cleared up,

Owen Barfield. Welcome to Pints with Jack. Thanks very much, David, and thank you for making me feel so

welcomed. I appreciate what you're doing here. and in very many ways, you'll break in new

grounds. So congratulations on taking this initiative. Thank you very much. Now, it's been a

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