Pints with Jack, season four, episode 66.

After Hours with Dr. Devin Brown.

Welcome, everyone. Pints with Jack is your weekly CS-Lewis podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I

break down and discuss the works of CS-Lewis. This season, we're eaves dropping on the correspondence

of a senior demon screw tape, as heavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior

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

screw tape's nephew, Wormwood. Each week will 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, and it's therefore an after-hours episode. And today I'm

joined by a close friend of Dr. Charlie Star, a former guest of the show. We welcome Dr. Devin

Brown. Dr. Devon Brown is a Lilly Scholar and Professor of English at Asbury University,

where, in addition to other literature classes, he teaches a course on Lewis and Tolkien. He was born and

grew up on Chicago Southside and is the recipient of the Francis White U-Book Award, Asbury's

highest honour for teaching. He has a PhD from the University of South Carolina and a master's degree

from the University of Florida. Dr. Brown is an award-winning author and a frequent speaker

at conferences and college campuses. In 2008, he was invited to teach one of the summer seminars

held at the kilns, and so for a week he slept in C.S. Lewis's bedroom, one thing that he has done

which has really impressed his mother. Dr. Brown is on record as holding the opinion

that despite the author's own words on the subject, Till We Have Faces, is not C.S. Lewis's

best book, a claim that some see as courageous, and others see as just plain nuts. Lastly,

Dr. Brown is the author of a book which we'll be talking about today, A Life Observed,

a Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis.

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