#020: C.S. Lewis, Covid, and Death Deniers

Tempus fugit, memento mori! Time flies, remember death! In this especially joyful episode, Tyler and Nick discuss how we've become a culture of death deniers and why we should instead train our gaze on the Infinite.
Using a sermon C.S. Lewis gave at Oxford in 1939 as World War II raged on, we look at the connection between wartime and the Covid pandemic. C.S. Lewis firmly believed that "Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice... If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun." It sure feels like a precipice right now, but maybe the beautiful things will (and should) always be worth doing. This isn't a matter of being reckless. It's a matter of getting our priorities straight and accepting the fact that *gasp* we're gonna die whether we like it or not. It's time to remember and not deny basic facts of existence. Cheers!
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LINKS

• America Magazine article by Thomas Harmon - "Reading C.S. Lewis in the Time of Covid"
• C.S. Lewis's sermon “Learning in War-Time.” Delivered in the fall of 1939 to the congregation at the Oxford University church of St. Mary the Virgin.
• Capuchin Crypt in Rome where skulls, bones, and other skeletal remains serve as a reminder that tempus fugit, memento mori!