Wade Center
Hosted by Aaron Hill and Jim Beitler · Wade Center at Wheaton College (IL)
4.9from 160 ratings
- 147
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 160
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 37K
- YouTube views
About Wade Center
The Wade Center Podcast features interviews and discussions with scholars and figures related to Wade Center and our authors: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams.
- Publisher
- Wade Center at Wheaton College (IL)
- Category
- education · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Dec 2018
- Latest episode
- 13 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 147 episodes have a transcript.
13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
C.S. Lewis and the Bible w/ Dr. Leslie Baynes
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
George MacDonald's Translations of Martin Luther's Hymns w/ Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Filming the Lives of Lewis and Tolkien w/ Kirk Manton
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C.S. Lewis and the Bible w/ Dr. Leslie Baynes
Published 13 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Charles Gore was one of the most influential voices in Anglicanism in England, starting from 1889 when he published a groundbreaking volume called Lux Mundi. And the Wade Center has Lewis's copy of Lux Mundi. So, however, I have not been able to find Lewis discussing Lux Mundi in his letters. He does. Yeah, yeah. Or else I would have put it in my book, but I can't find anything. So how then do you know that Gore influenced Lewis? Well, because everything that Gore says in his famous chapter, The Holy Spirit and Inspiration, is what lewis says about the bible just point by point by point so in my book i say that even if lewis didn't read that chapter gore's impact on anglicanism was so strong that a hundred years after the publication of the book in 1889 there was a centennial celebration and michael ramsey who was a scholar and the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote that from 1889 for about the next 50 years, Anglicanism was what Gore said. […]
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- Leslie Baynes
- Julia Golding
- Malcolm Guite
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- YouTube views
- 36,802
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 112 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 48 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- Quality
- 57
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 93
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Aaron Hill and Jim Beitler host the show. Published by Wade Center at Wheaton College (IL).
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