The Theology Pugcast

What if Screwtape Were Female? An Interview with Tilly Dillehay https://youtu.be/JryxmyPH9p0 Today the Pugs are pleased to welcome to the show Tilly Dillehay, author of My Dear Hemlock. Tilly has taken Lewis’s ingenious book, The Screwtape Letters as inspiration for her book in which Madame Hoaxrot (a female Screwtape) instructs a junior temptress named Hemlock …

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Anthony Esolen on Artificial Intelligence and the Desecration of the Word https://youtu.be/J5YKEDmLulI Today the Pugcast is pleased to welcome Anthony Esolen on the show! Tony is a prolific author and translator. Perhaps his best known work is his translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Today the pugs ask Tony for his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence, particularly …

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Called to Freedom—An Interview with Brad Littlejohn https://youtu.be/fuzf07yfIZg The Pugcast is pleased to welcome Brad Littlejohn back on the show to discuss his latest book, Called to Freedom. If there’s one thing western culture seems to celebrate, it’s freedom. But just what are we talking about when we speak of it? Does freedom mean doing …

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Are Men Bibliophobes? https://youtu.be/9xFVHkV73TA If men would only read more, especially more fiction, would not political nightmares, such as our current presidential turn, be avoided? The feminized cultural commentators continue to think so. The pugs engage a recent Vox article that takes seriously such a claim, and while the article finds the claim to be …

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The Reality War https://youtu.be/675CiD3mT-4 Today the Pugs reflect on a Substack article by N. S. Lyons entitled, The Reality War. This insightful piece notes that we are living through a revival of the most pernicious of all heresies–Gnosticism. The bitter irony of our time is it is occurring in what many people have wrongly assumed …

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Magic [Systems?] in Fantasy Literature https://youtu.be/oANyRx0YwxQ A recent post at Screen Rant complained that C.S. Lewis never explained Narnia’s magic system. This is an example of completely missing the point, as myth and legend never explain magic, though in recent fantasy lit, detailed out magic systems are almost an essential. For his part, Tolkien believed …

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The Scandal of the Incarnation https://youtu.be/O4DiuGZExug Today’s episode delves into how the mystery of God assuming human flesh has continued to upturn paradigms of what it means to be a human creature, of what it means to be divine, and how the two are related. The pug’s engage this rich and timely topic by delving …

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The State of the Culture, 2024 https://youtu.be/nbYERjF1QvU Today the Pugs discuss a post by Ted Gioia on his Substack, The Honest Broker. The title of the post is, “The State of the Culture, 2024” Gioia is a well known music critic, and is actually the brother of Dana Gioia (the poet). Ted Gioia’s Substack is …

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How to Build a Family Economy: An Interview with Rory Groves https://youtu.be/07sRNQ46dNA Today the Pugs welcome Rory Groves, author of Durable Trades, and a new book, The Family Economy: Discovering the Family as It was Designed to Work. Rory transitioned out of a high tech career a few years back in order to build a …

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Against Christian Civilization? https://youtu.be/sRt1YczIUgo Today the Pugs are joined by writer and editorialist, Bethel McGrew to discuss Paul Kingsnorth’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things. The Pugs found themselves both barking when they found disagreement as well as agreement, with a slight weight given to disagreement. We hope that you enjoy the show. Paul Kingsnorth’s Erasmus …

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