Well, welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and I am joined by

Adam Francisco, Rod Rosenblot, Scott Keith, and special guest Greg Kokel.

Oh, there you go. Thank you.

Today's episode of The Thinking Fellows is being recorded live at Here We Still Stand,

2023.

The theme of the conference this year is C.S. Lewis and the Untamed God.

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next year's conference. You wanted to be here this year, and you couldn't make it because we

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To follow the theme of the conference today, we are going to discuss CS Lewis,

and we've done this numerous times on the Thanking Fellows.

In fact, our most popular episode of the show ever was our original C.S. Louis episode just titled

C.S. Louis. And it, you know, I think that episode helped put us on the map outside of our

circle of Lutheran churches and Lutherans who

were listening to the show. And so it's always been a great treat to come back and discuss

Lewis. In fact, a couple of years ago, we reread through the Narnia series. We did all of the books

in Narnia, and we did a couple of episodes on a relationship between Lewis and

Tolkien. And so today we're going to revisit Lewis generally in the theme of the conference,

but I want to ask the question to the fellows and in various ways here, why is C.S. Lewis

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