The shining barrier, the shield of our love, a walled garden, a fence around a young tree to keep the dears from nibbling it,

a fortified place with the walls and watchtowers gleaming white like the cliffs of England,

the shining barrier. We called it so from the first, protecting the green tree of our love.

And yet in another sense, it was our love itself, made strong within that was the shining

barrier.

This is Bites with Jack, season five, episode 48, a severe mercy month, part one.

Thank you. Episode 48, A Severe Mercy Month, Part 1. Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to Pines with Jack, your favorite weekly CS-Lewis podcast, where Andrew, David, and I

break down and discuss the works of C.S. Louis.

Minus David today.

Yes, minus David. Minus David for the next month. Oh, my gosh. Well, and that's just because I was going to say, not because we got,

we kicked him out by any stretch and imagination, but David needed, we needed to give David a break.

Absolutely. Well, we've finished the Four Loves.

We've had ecumenism month and apologetics month, and now we have severe mercy month.

So Matt and I have been reading this famous book by Sheldon Van Aachen, and we've got a few episodes planned to discuss it, and hopefully they will be equally helpful whether or not you have read the book or

you haven't read the book yet.

Yes.

And this is going to be a very different month in the sense that the format of these episodes

is going to be very different than our typical one.

We're not going to be necessarily chronologically progressing through the book,

although we will be picking up on some of the key events,

but the book is very much going to be a launching point to discussion between Andrew and myself

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