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The Wade Center Podcast features interviews and discussions with scholars and figures related to Wade Center and our authors: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald,...
The friendship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien has spawned many myths and inspired many lives. In this week's episode, co-hosts Dr. Jim Bei...
You don't want to miss this episode! Join co-hosts Dr. Jim Beitler and Aaron Hill as they interview Julia Golding and Malcolm Guite to discu...
If you want to understand the writings of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams, you need to read Dante Alighieri's, The Divin...
How can we trust a God that let's bad things happen to us? How can we worship in the ordinary and in the difficult times in life, even when...
Would J.R.R. Tolkien have approved of the recent Rings of Power series or Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy? We couldn't resist asking Dr....
Millions explore and live inside of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels on a regular basis, but few study and examine his faith. Join co-hosts D...
Crystal L. and David C. Downing, former co-hosts of the podcast, return to discuss Crystal's latest book, The Wages of Cinema (IVP, 2025). J...
In addition to being his teaching home, Oxford was an integral part of C.S. Lewis's life. His drafty rooms in The New Building, his pastoral...
Did C.S. Lewis believe in evolution or not? Join co-hosts Dr. Jim Beitler and Aaron Hill for a bonus episode where we ask this question of D...
C.S. Lewis fictionalized the creation account in several of his novels, most notably in Perelandra and The Magician's Nephew . Join co-hosts...
"At the end of all our exploring, we will arrive where we began and know the place for the first time." - "Little Gidding," T.S. Eliot Liste...
Millions know him as a novelist and an Oxford Don, but C.S. Lewis's most lasting impact may be his role model as a Christian witness and eva...
If this podcast is bound together by anything, it is a love of books—particularly, a love for books written by the Wade Center authors. Insp...
Sometimes the best way to understand an author is by exploring their conversation partners? Who are they responding to? In his recent Hansen...
In addition to creating myths themselves, the friendship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien is the stuff of myth and legend. Join Dr. Jim Beit...
In our anxiety-ridden age, we are all seeking a home where we feel safe, loved, and accepted. But what happens if no place on earth and no m...
We're back! Join Dr. Jim Beitler, Director of the Marion E. Wade Center, and co-host Aaron Hill as they connect with Jonathan Rodgers, autho...
We're back! Join Dr. Jim Beitler, Director of the Marion E. Wade Center, and co-host Aaron Hill as they sit down with Dr. Kristen L. Page to...
We're back! In our first new episode of Season 7, Dr. Jim Beitler, Director of the Marion E. Wade Center, and co-host Aaron Hill sit down fo...
To celebrate the start of the Wade Center's new Director, Dr. Jim Beitler (Professor of English) we decided to re-release an archival episod...
Our dear friends and co-hosts of the podcast, Drs. Crystal & David C. Downing, are retiring as co-directors of the Wade Center in June. Prof...
Through his writings, C.S. Lewis emphasized the importance of travel and learning for through these two activities we gain the needed perspe...
In the first half of the 20th century, England elites like T.S. Eliot were trying to devalue John Milton and elevate John Donne—exchanging o...
While he never visited America, C.S. Lewis and his works have greatly impacted the American religious landscape. While many general readers...
In many ways, C.S. Lewis was both a man ahead of and behind the times. His approach to science and theology was based upon his professorial...
From C.S. Lewis's childhood wardrobe, to Tolkien's desk, to countless unpublished letters and manuscripts, The Marion E. Wade Center is full...
J.R.R. Tolkien loved Beowulf, as evidenced by his landmark lecture, "The Monsters and the Critics," his posthumously published prose transla...
Archived at the Wade Center are a set of letters between Warren Lewis and a missionary named Blanche Biggs. After the death of his brother,...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted lives, industries, and even spirituality across the globe. In this week's episode, critically acclaimed auth...
In Orthodoxy (1908), G.K. Chesterton shares his idea to write a romance in which an Englishman travels around the world and sets foot on a f...
Only G.K. Chesterton could write a detective novel about undercover poet cops bravely battling anarchists as a way of explaining the problem...
Today's culture favors convenience and speed. Even finding the time to slow down and read a physical book feels impossible. In this week's e...
How should we read, interpret, and apply history? How can historical misconceptions doom us to repeat the mistakes of the past? Is everythin...
These days everyone is a critic. The internet is filled with—some might say "fueled" by—criticism of movies, books, art, society, everything...
Long before the internet was invented people wrote letters to C.S. Lewis and he wrote back, sending them meaningful, insightful, and compass...
The works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are filled with magical lands, walking trees, and talking animals. They elicit wonder in our hear...
Even though he constantly reminded readers that he wasn't a theologian or a biblical scholar, C.S. Lewis wrote an entire book on how to read...
In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to finish unwrapping the many memorable witticis...
Over the last century many Christian apologists have made a name for themselves. At the root of this apologetic tree lies the genius and cha...
Did you know that the archaic language in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight colored J.R.R. Tolkien's prose in The Lord of the Rings? Or that t...
Just when you thought Phantastes couldn't get any more fantastical, George MacDonald slips in two short stories: one in which women with win...
This is the story that started it all—the fairy tale that baptized C.S. Lewis's imagination and inspired countless fantasy novels such as Le...
Tolkien fans, you don't want to miss this episode! As Graham Shea notes, "Critics have long debated whether, and to what degree, J.R.R. Tolk...
Is there such a thing as Christian literature? How important is originality in literature and culture? Should Christianity embrace or reject...
When Yuri Gagarin returned from mankind's first trip into space, he declared, "I looked and looked and looked, but I didn't see God." In an...
For over a decade, C.S. Lewis and Stella Aldwinckle modeled how to discuss Christianity, atheism, and belief with civility and grace through...
"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes." In part two of...
Between writing best-selling books, C.S. Lewis published hundreds of essays. Many of them were collected and published after Lewis's death a...
To tide you over until we return from vacation, enjoy this re-released episode on George MacDonald from the Wade Center archives. Most Inkli...
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, and Neil Gaiman are praised for penning imaginative worlds and inspiring stories. But did you...