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Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

S7E3 – LAL 1 – “Dear Mrs. Shelburne…”

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The co-hosts begin reading Letters to an American Lady, Jack's correspondence with Mary Willis Shelburne. In today's episode they cover the letters from 1950-1953.

[Show Notes]

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0:00.0

Let us by all means pray for one another.

0:05.0

It is perhaps the only form of work for reunion which never does anything but good.

0:12.0

This is Pines for Jack, Season 7, Episode 3.

0:16.0

Dear Mrs. Shelbon, letters to an American lady, part one.

0:29.6

Dear Pints for Jack listeners, thank you for downloading this episode of Pints for Jack,

0:32.3

the podcast where we discuss the work of C.S. Lewis.

0:36.4

This season, we're reading some of Lewis's letters, which have been brought together in several different collections.

0:38.9

In season seven, we're going to read the correspondence with Mary Willis Shelburne, found in Letters

0:43.9

to an American Lady, as well as letters to children, and his exchange of Latin letters with

0:49.2

St Giovanni Calabria.

0:51.4

And today's opening quotation is found in the early pages of our first book,

0:56.6

Letters to an American Lady, when Lewis is speaking about ecumenism. And in today's

1:02.5

episode, we're going to begin reading this collection and hear Jack's thoughts about first editions,

1:07.7

angels, and conversion. We're going to be covering approximately a two or three year period,

1:13.6

looking at the letters between the 26th of October, 1950, ending with 1953.

1:19.8

All blessings, Andrew, Matt, and David.

1:24.0

Good morning, gentlemen. How are things?

1:26.9

Oh, it feels good to be back into our first official episode on the material.

1:34.8

We did a welcome one, but we're finally diving into the book.

1:38.1

It's fun to days leading up to this, prep for this, read it, reread it, kind of process, think about it.

1:43.7

So I'm excited. I'm excited for this, read it, reread it, kind of process, think about it. So I'm excited.

1:45.2

I'm excited for this, I guess you want to call it different season format because it's

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