In this podcast we take a close look at C.S. Lewis’ piece “Is Progress Possible?” published in 1958. We see how many of the things he predicted 60 years ago have come to pass today. Links C.S. Lewis’ original piece. Irreverend podcast with Joe Boot about church and state.
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Will Lockdown be the end of “experts”?
A few years ago Michael Gove made his infamous statement: “people in this country have had enough of experts”. At the time I think I found it vaguely amusing – at the time, there were a lot of experts who had been weighing in about the EU. But over the last few months it’s come […]
Secularism and Humanitarian Punishment
Recently, I came across C.S. Lewis’ essay “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”. If you’ve not read it, I do recommend it: I think Lewis makes some excellent points about punishment. It makes quite a neat follow-up to my previous post on Atheism Plus and ethics. What I was talking about in that post was personal […]