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Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

S9E5 – “Family Love”, C. S. Lewis Reading Day 2025

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9671 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Andrew and David celebrated #CSLewisReadingDay 2025 with a livestream, joined by...

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Hey everyone. For those of you who don't know, November 29th is CS Lewis Reading Day. We started

0:08.7

doing this three years ago now, and each year we encourage everyone to share their favorite

0:14.6

Lewis quotations. We've got a large cache of images for people to share. We also encourage people

0:20.3

this year to do a selfie with

0:22.2

their favourite lowest book. And another stable part of CS Lois Reading Day is a live stream. In the past,

0:30.0

we've done several in the day because of all of the different time zones around the world.

0:35.1

But we were fortunate this year because a CS Lewis Reading Day was on a Saturday so we could do it smack bang in the middle of the world. But we were fortunate this year because a CSO.ish reading day was on a

0:39.2

Saturday so we could do it smack bang in the middle of the day. And that worked out for most time

0:44.9

zones except Australia. We had on great guests as always. I was joined by Andrew, of course.

0:52.4

And we also had on Dr. Chris Pipkin from the Inklings Variety Hour

0:56.1

podcast. We had Ian Faith from the Screw Tate Letters podcast. He and his co-host have actually just

1:02.2

released a book that's inspired by Screw Tape on Fighting Evil in our time. We had Jackson

1:08.1

Greer from the Christian Letters blog.

1:15.8

We had E. Stephen Burnett from Law Haven, the website and podcast.

1:19.2

We had Dr. Andrew Snyder from the Mythic Mind podcast.

1:22.3

We had Rillian from Talking Beasts.

1:25.0

We had CS Lo's superfan, Brooke Medina.

1:28.2

If you recall, I interviewed her a couple of seasons ago now.

1:36.2

And finally, we had Dr. Crystal Hurdon to talk to us about the theme of this year, which was family love.

1:39.7

Because last year we covered friendship, philia.

1:43.5

And so this year we decided to do another of the four loves.

2:05.3

We did Storgie, affection, which Lewis roots in love of family. So she shared with us some of her research. But not only that, we had Mr. Matt Wheeler come and sing us some Inklings-inspired songs. And we had a surprise appearance from Mr. Max McLeanan star of stage and screen. I'm sure people have seen his one-man productions of The Most reluctant convert and its converted movie, as well as

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