In Episode #3 of Conversations with Sorinne podcast, Sorinne Ardeleanu gets to know David Goldstein, co-founder of We Defend Truth. 

David is a very resilient and inspiring soul that has experienced a lot of flow in his life from gracefully adapting to challenges. His story and message offer a lot to those of us who aspire to live fulfilling, purpose-driven, and peaceful lives.

In this episode you'll learn how faith, non-attachment, and commitment open your life up to beauty and rewarding opportunities, how life and death are connected, how the mainstream tends to skew our perception of reality, how to evolve in consciousness, and how to be of service to Life. 

It is an honor getting to know David better. I appreciate his willingness to share many of the pieces of his inner and outer life so candidly with me and you. 

Learn more about this Conversation and others at www.ConversationsWithSorinne.com.

Motivational Meal for the Soul

A lecture with Q&A given by Davenant Residential Teaching Fellow, Dr. Joseph Minich, entitled "C.S. Lewis as Historian of Religion."

C.S. Lewis wore many hats: children’s author, Christian apologist, literary scholar. But can he be read as a theorist of the history of religion? And can reconstructing his theoretical history speak into contemporary controversies about the doctrine of God?

By putting Lewis in conversation with some of his major influences (e.g. Owen Barfield) and by reading his fiction (Narnia, The Ransom Trilogy, Till We Have Faces) in conversation with several didactic works (especially Miracles), this lecture argues that we can in fact infer an implicit “history of religion” in Lewis that reconstructs religious knowing from the time of Adam, to the Ancient Near East, to the dawn of philosophical thought. Lewis’ implicit narrative reconstruction is likewise an attempt to situate his own modern moment within that same history. And while Lewis was not unaware of the risks of the modern project, he also took its goods for granted, and anticipated their preservation into the future.

This lecture, then, likewise covers Lewis’ anticipation concerning the possible future of religion. Moreover, one might read Lewis’ own intellectual project is an attempt to enact a certain possible future, to publicly gesture man (through the renewal of an atrophied imagination) toward the telos of Christ, who is the human destiny.

Joseph Minich (Ph.D, The University of Texas at Dallas) is a Residential Teaching Fellow at The Davenant Institute in Landrum, South Carolina. He is the author of Enduring Divine Absence (Davenant Press, 2017) and Bulwarks of Unbelief (Lexham Press, 2023), the editor of several works with The Davenant Press, as well as the founding editor of Ad Fontes. He is also a host of The Pilgrim Faith Podcast.

C.S. Lewis as Historian of Religion

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