Patti Callahan Henry
Oct 2, 20194 min
Updated: Oct 6, 2019
At the beginning of Season 2, I interviewed author Patti Callahan about her latest book, Becoming Mrs. Lewis. Now at the close of the Season, Patti returns to talk to Matt about her own podcast, Behind the Scenes of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. Read More
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PWJ: S2E31 – AA – PATTI CALLAHAN Sept 24, 2019
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Time Stamps
01:00 – Matt’s Introduction
02:47 – Drink and quote of the week
06:57 – Overview of “Becoming Mrs. Lewis”
10:37 – Joy, the false self and “Till We Have Faces”
19:39 – Lewis’ own journey
21:44 – Lewis, personal faults and Mrs. Moore
27:05 – What has happened since your last appearance here?
30:46 – How did this new podcast come about?
33:11 – Who will you be interviewing?
37:41 – Joy’s poetry
41:07 – What did you learn in the process of putting together the podcast?
43:40 – Will there be a movie of the book?
48:43 – How has this project transformed you?
49:56 – Patti’s talks at an upcoming retreat
54:16 – What else is on the horizon for you?
Show Notes
• I had previously interviewed Patti at the beginning of the Season.
• The drink-of-the-week was Macallan 12.
• The quote-of-the-week was from Till We Have Faces:
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”—C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
• Patti quoted Carl Jung:
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” —C.G. Jung
• When discussing Joy’s poetry, Patti references Joy’s poem “Yet One More Spring”.
• Matt mentioned that Patti’s book reminded him of A Severe Mercy.
• Patti described her upcoming role at the 2019 C.S. Lewis Retreat.
• Find out more about Patti by visiting her website.
Join author Patti Callahan for a seven-part original podcast that explores in depth the improbable and beautiful love story between C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. Find out more about Patti's Behind the Scenes of Becoming Mrs. Lewis Podcast Series
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"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Each week I get together with my friend Matt to talk through the works of C.S. Lewis chapter by chapter. So far, we have read through “Mere Christianity”, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and we are about halfway through “The Great Divorce”.
From time-to-time, we have “After Hours” episodes where we interview C.S. Lewis scholars and enthusiasts. These have included Joseph Pearce from the Augustine Institute and New York Times Bestselling Author Patti Callahan.
This podcast has its own website, so to learn more about it, please visit PintsWithJack.com.
Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times best-selling author of fifteen novels, including the (Historical Fiction), BECOMING MRS. LEWIS—The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis. Now a USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly, and The Globe and Mail bestseller. (writing as Patti Callahan).
The author is also the host of the upcoming seven-part original "Behind the Scenes of Becoming Mrs. Lewis Podcast Series" launching October 1, 2019.
Her most recent novel, THE FAVORITE DAUGHTER, (Contemporary Southern Fiction) was released June 4, 2019, and is available now. THE PERFECT LOVE SONG—A Christmas Holiday novella. coming October 8, 2019, and available for pre-order now. A full-time author and mother of three children, she now resides in both Mountain Brook, Alabama and Bluffton, South Carolina with her husband. Read More
In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.
Now a USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and The Mail and Globe Bestseller.
From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, finding a love that even the threat of death couldn’t destroy.
In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women weren’t meant to have a voice—and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn’t know they had.
At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer’s life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story—a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all. Buy the Book and learn more about BML. Read More