Ep. 9 - Learning in War-Time, C. S. Lewis - Part 1

This is Episode 9 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

This is part one of a two-part episode in which Joffre Swait and Scott Postma read and discuss C. S. Lewis's sermon, "Learning in War-Time."

C. S. Lewis, himself a veteran of World War One, delivered the sermon at St. Mary the Virgin Church, Oxford, on Sunday, October 22, 1939. In his sermon, Lewis defends traditional humanistic learning even when there was little chance of finishing the task since WW2 was looming. Lewis suggests, "The larger issue is not learning in war-time, but learning at any time, especially when our eternal destiny is at stake." It's a powerful sermon, and Scott and Joffre's comments make it relevant for us today at a time when a modern European nation (Russia) has, for the first time since WW2, invaded another independent European nation (Ukraine).

 

Read C. S. Lewis's Sermon, "Learning in War-Time".