The Screwtape Letters: Confronting Evil in Our Time – Practical Christian Living & Spiritual Warfare
A Christian podcast on spiritual warfare, Christian living, and the practical application of faith in today’s world. Each episode is designed to strengthen your walk with Jesus, sharpen your discernment, and keep Christ at the center of your life.If you’re tired of pretending everything is fine, this is the book you need. Confronting Evil in Our Time - Now on Amazon https://amzn.to/3XgCodLNEW Book "The Devil's Story of Christmas" on Amazon https://amzn.to/4r9xXPSWelcome to The Screwtape Letters: Confronting Evil in Our Time. Hosted by Ian Faith. This Christian podcast began as a deep...
Halloween, C.S. Lewis & Scripture: Are Christians Giving the Devil Too Much Power?
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Halloween presents a dilemma for many Christians: should we avoid it entirely, embrace it as a cultural occasion, or find a way to engage without compromising our faith? In this episode, Ian Faith challenges believers to reconsider how they think about evil, fear, and the spiritual significance they assign to Halloween. Drawing on Scripture and the writings of C.S...
Ecclesiastes: Today's Application for Your Faith Walk and Integrity
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In this episode, Ian Faith explores the timeless wisdom of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes and its relevance to the moral and spiritual challenges facing society today, particularly as voters prepare for upcoming elections. Ecclesiastes reminds us that human understanding is limited and that God is ultimately the Creator and sustainer of life. Through Ecclesiastes 11:5, Ian reflects on the mystery...
Putting Christ Back in Christmas: Ian Faith on Spiritual Warfare and the True Meaning of Christmas
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In this interview, author Ian Faith discusses the inspiration behind his book, The Devil’s Story of Christmas, and why he believes the spiritual significance of Christmas has been lost in modern culture. Following his previous book, Confronting Evil in Our Time, Ian wanted to explore the connection between Old Testament prophecies and the birth of Jesus Christ through a fr...
After October 7: Cognitive Dissonance, Israel, and the Search for Truth (Seth Leibsohn)
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As we remember October 7 and the lives forever changed by the massacre in Israel, we’re revisiting this important conversation with radio host, writer, policy and communications expert Seth Leibsohn.
In this episode, Loren, Greg, and Ian sit down with Seth to examine cognitive dissonance and the difficult questions surrounding America and Israel’s fight for surv...
Repentance Is Not an Apology: C.S. Lewis on Turning Back to God
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In this episode, Ian takes up a question that came out of a recent men's group: what does repentance actually mean? Drawing on the Greek word metanoia and on Matthew 3:1-12, he explains that repentance is a turning back toward God rather than simply feeling guilty. He distinguishes worldly sorrow from godly grief, which goes beyond regret to a real...
How many friends do you have?
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The discussion revolves around the topic of friendship and how to build meaningful friendships. The participants touch upon various aspects, such as the importance of physical connection, the evolution of friendships, the value of consistency in communication, and the flexibility needed in maintaining relationships. They emphasize the significance of making an effort to connect with others and listening as a way to build respect and relationships. The conversation encourages people to take the initiative and start building friendships...
EXCLUSIVE: The Devil's Story of Christmas - Audio Excerpt: Introduction & Chapter One.
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How Trauma Shapes Perception and How We See God - Romas 8
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In Episode 11, we explore how our past experiences with authority can become lenses through which we interpret God, other people, and even the church. Drawing from C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, especially Letter 2 and the “man in the next pew,” we examine how irritation, disappointment, and projection can redirect our attention away from God and toward the flaws of the pe...
Living as a Mature Christian. Colossians 3:15 - Calvary Chapel
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Living as a Mature Christian. Colossians 3:15 - Calvary Chapel
Tim Phelps’s message focuses on Christian maturity and the deliberate decision every believer must make to grow in Christ. Drawing primarily from Colossians 3, he explains that becoming mature in Christ is not simply something that happens with time—it requires intentionally setting our hearts and minds on the things of God. Tim shares how a missions trip to Mexico challenged him to realize that, although he had...
Solving Spiritual Numbness - Return to Joy! - Romans 12:15
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The episode marks the return of The Screwtape Letters Podcast after the summer break, with Ian and Michael continuing their Lenses series by examining emotional repression and spiritual numbness. They explore how numbness can appear to be maturity when it is actually a form of self-protection. Suppressing pain may feel safe, but it also suppresses joy, connection, and spiritual awareness...
Lindsay Clancy, Free Will, Spiritual Warfare, & The Devil’s Story of Christmas
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After a summer break, Ian and Michael are returning with new episodes, including the completion of our popular Lenses series and a deeper exploration of Confronting Evil in Our Time. With more than 500 copies of the companion book sold, we’re excited to continue exploring the Christian wisdom needed to recognize and confront evil in our time.
We’ll also be expanding our journey through the great works that have shaped Christian thought, including C.S...
The Paradox of Patriotism. Surrendering Independence: C.S. Lewis’s Guide to True Freedom
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In this special milestone episode of the Screwtape Letters podcast, host Ian explores C.S. Lewis’s nuanced perspective on patriotism, democracy, and freedom to mark America's 250th Independence Day. Drawing from Lewis’s Christian philosophy, the discussion centers on balancing a natural love for one’s homela...
Listener Questions, Our Journey, Stories, Prayer & What's Coming
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In this special listener feedback episode, Ian Faith reflects on the growth of Confronting Evil in Our Time and shares updates on the podcast's co-hosts, including Galen Balinski's exciting expansion into a historic winery and Michael Blueitt’s Montana cowboy adventures. Ian explains why prayer requests from...
The Safest Road to Hell: Inside The Screwtape Letters with Dr. Michael Ward
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Ian Faith interviews Dr. Michael Ward , Oxford scholar, Catholic priest, and leading C.S. Lewis expert, about the depth and relevance of The Screwtape Letters. Dr. Ward traces his lifelong immersion in Lewis's work from childhood, through living at The Kilns, to his Oxford PhD and beyond. The conversation opens with the book's dual purpose: mocking the devil (drawing on Luther and More) while simultaneously holding spiritual warfare in deadly seriousness, a balance Lewis maintained by focusing on...
When is it Time to Leave My Church?
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Ian emphasizes the importance of church leadership, community, and transparency. He noted that scandals, financial concerns, and poor leadership have caused many people to question organized religion and seek more authentic faith communities. He advocates for churches centered on Christ, sound biblical teaching, and strong local community rather th...
A Spiritual Warfare Bible Study for Individuals or Small Groups | Confronting Evil in Our Time
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In this episode of The Screwtape Letters Podcast: Confronting Evil in Our Time, Ian Faith introduces the Spiritual Warfare Study Guide that accompanies Confronting Evil in Our Time and explains why summer can be a meaningful season for spiritual growth, personal study, and group discussion. Ian shares how the guide was designed to work for individuals, accountability partners, or small groups, with space for journaling, reflection, and...
Conflict, Fear, and Faith: Learning to Speak the Truth in Love`
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This episode of The Screwtape Letters podcast explores the tension between conflict, silence, and the slow emotional drift that happens when people suppress honesty instead of engaging in truthful conversation. Building on the previous discussion about the “illusion of strength,” the hosts examine how bottling up emotio...
The Illusion of Strength: Why Self-Reliance Can Weaken Your Faith
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This episode explores the “illusion of strength,” arguing that what people often celebrate, self-reliance, toughness, and independence, can actually create distance from God. The hosts suggest that pride in personal strength may become a barrier to faith, as it encourages individuals to depend solely on themselves rather...
Hope for Our Next Generation with Pastor Brandon Walton - Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, and Faith in Our Youth
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This episode opens with a reflection by Brandon Walton on 1 John 4, grounding the conversation in the idea that true love originates from God and is demonstrated through Christ’s sacrifice. Ian introduces a young guest, Brandon Walton, and they talk about faith and the revival in the...
Fear of Disapproval: Breaking Free from the Need to Be Liked
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This episode of The Screwtape Letters podcast explores the “fear of disapproval” as part of the Lenses series, shifting from the previous topic of controlling others to examining what controls us—specifically, the need for validation. The hosts unpack how this fear often begins in childhood, where the desire to belong can lead to compromising personal values. Whether it’s peer pressure, performance-based acceptance, or the need to fit into a group, these early patterns can carry into adulthoo...
Identity in Christ, Not in Usefulness: Breaking Free from the “Needed” Trap
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This episode of The Screwtape Letters podcast builds on the previous discussion of urgency by introducing a new lens: “the need to be needed.” The hosts explore how this desire can masquerade as care, purpose, or love, while actually being rooted in control, pride, or identity-seeking. They e...
URGENCY Lenses: Why Slowing Down Leads to Clarity and Peace
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This episode of The Screwtape Letters podcast continues the “lenses” series by exploring the “lens of urgency” and how it fuels anxiety. The hosts reflect on how modern culture equates speed with significance, creating a false sense that constant busyness equals productivity or success. They challenge this idea, emphasizing that rushing often leads to poor decisions, mistakes, and lack of clarity. Instead, they argue that true effectiveness comes from slowing down, practicing due diligence, and resisting the pressure to act i...
The Humble King: Lessons from Palm Sunday and the Road to Easter
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In this episode of the Screwtape Letters Podcast, Ian celebrates Easter week and talks about Jesus accepting what God had laid before him. Ian reflects on the importance of establishing “constants” in life that keep us grounded. Drawing inspiration from The Screwtape Letters, he explains how steady rhythms, such as regular church attendance or small group gatherings, can ground a person spiritually and emotionally. He shares from personal experience, noting how his Wednesday morning men’s coffee group has se...
The Familiarity Trap: How Comfort Is Quietly Stunting Your Growth
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This episode centers on the “familiarity trap,” the subtle danger of becoming too comfortable in life, relationships, and faith. The hosts reflect on how people often tie their identity to performance and then drift into routines where nothing feels wrong, but growth quietly stops. In a world of endless choice and convenience, especially in modern American culture, people can build comfortable echo chambers that eliminate tension, challenge, and ultimately awareness of spiritual or personal decline.
Th...
Beyond the Mask: Who Are You Without Your Achievements?
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This episode centers on the concept of “lenses”—the internal frameworks through which people interpret life, and how those lenses shape relationships, identity, and spiritual health. A key focus is the “gap” between people, especially in a father-son relationship: the unspoken thoughts, emotions, and misunderstandings that can quietly define connection. The hosts, Ian and Micheal, emphasize that vulnerability, honesty, and shared struggles are essential to closing that gap. Through stories of simple but powerful moments of affection and the biblic...
Survival Lenses: How Childhood Shapes Who We Think We Are
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In this episode of Confronting Evil in Our Time, hosts Ian and Micheal continue their “Lenses” series, exploring how the ways we interpret life are often shaped long before we realize it. A lens is not simply what we believe; it is the framework through which we interpret every experience. Many of these lenses are formed in childhood, through family dynamics, stability or instability at home, and the examples set by parents. When those early environments are inconsistent or e...
Broken Lenses: How Spiritual Distortion Shapes Our Lives
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Introducing our new co-host, Micheal Blueitt, and the "Lenses" series
In this episode of The Screwtape Letters podcast: Confronting Evil in Our Time, host Ian Faith introduces new co-host Micheal Blueitt, launching a year-long deep dive into Lenses. The conversation centers on the subtle strategies of spiritual warfare first explored by C. S. Lewis, particularly distraction. Rather than dramatic evil, they examine how the enemy works quietly, shaping the way believers interpret reality and...
Battlefields, Boardrooms, and the Brink of Heaven. An extraordinary testimony of grace, forgiveness, and the sovereign hope of Christ.
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The Screwtape Letters: Confronting Evil in Our Time podcast, hosted by Ian Faith, explores the real-world spiritual battles affecting families, faith, and peace. Born out of a desire to confront evil honestly rather than pretend everything is fine, the podcast blends biblical teaching, personal testimony, and practical encouragement to help listeners recognize spiritual deception, reject it, and pursue Christ wholeheartedly.
In this episode, guest David Mulldune shares his powerful life story, from poverty and...
Review of The Screwtape Letters On Stage Theatre Production
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Ian Faith offers a thoughtful and appreciative review of The Screwtape Letters on stage, presented by Max McLean and Fellowship for Performing Arts at the Herberger Theatre in Phoenix. Approaching the production with both deep familiarity and cautious expectation as a longtime student of C. S. Lewis, Faith finds that the adaptation successfully honors Lewis’s original intent. Rather than leaning into satire or comedy, the play focuses on spiritual warfare, subtle temptation, and moral reflection, using irony an...
Mere Christianity in Real Life: Confronting Evil, Unity, and Wisdom with David Bates - Pints with Jack
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This episode of The Screwtape Letters Podcast: Confronting Evil in Our Time features an in-depth interview with David Bates, co-founder and host of the long-running C.S. Lewis podcast Pints with Jack. Ian Faith and Galen Balinski open by sharing the heart behind their own devotional and podcast, born out of real spiritual battles, and welcome David as both a friend and an early supporter of their work. David shares his personal faith journey, describing how a childhood...
Catharsis Rage. Confronting These Evil Outbursts. “Are you done?”
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The episode centers on the idea of catharsis, its roots in Greek tragedy and how it shows up today in social media outrage, reality TV, and public emotional outbursts. Ian and Galen contrast classical and modern understandings of catharsis with Christian wisdom, arguing that while emotional release is often celebrated as healthy or therapeutic, unrestrained emotion can become destructive when detached from truth, reason, and moral order. They frame catharsis as something that, when unchecked, stands in opposition...
FREE Audio Book Sample - Chapter 15 Reading, "Breaking Anxiety's Grip"
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Ian Faith Co-Author of Confronting Evil in Our Time provides a reading of Chapter 15, "Breaking Anxiety's Grip.”
Introduction: In the quiet of his study, C.S. Lewis leaned forward, his fingers tracing the delicate lines of the manuscript that explores one of humanity's most profound spiritual struggles. Anxiety, he understood, was not merely an emotion but a demonic strategy, a subtle weapon designed to tear humans away from the sacred present.
The de...
Max McLean: Faith, C.S. Lewis, Theater, and the Screwtape Letters
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This episode is an in-depth interview with Max McLean, an award-winning actor, producer, and founder of Fellowship for Performing Arts, whose career has been devoted to bringing Christian literature and Scripture to life on stage, screen, and audio. McLean is best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Screwtape in the stage adaptation of The Screwtape Letters and for portraying C. S. Lewis in The Most Reluctant Convert. He shares his own conversion story as an adult, describing how...
Sunday Update: Balancing Prayer and Action: Faith, Work, and the Legacy of C. S. Lewis
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In this episode of The Screwtape Letters: Confronting Evil in Our Time, Ian opens with prayer and a teaching on the biblical relationship between faith and work, stressing that God calls believers to active obedience, not passive spirituality. Drawing from Scripture, he emphasizes integrity, diligence, and purposeful action, encouraging listeners to “sow seeds” through faithful effort rather than relying on prayer alone. Ian connects this message to everyday life, work, job searching, and spiritual growth, urging listeners to live...
Freedom for Venezuela: Confronting Evil, A Moral Reckoning
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In this special episode, Ian and Galen examine the recent freedom movement in Venezuela through a moral and biblical lens, challenging listeners to look beyond politics and international law to confront clear acts of evil. They frame the situation as a test of moral clarity, comparing inaction in the face of oppression to ignoring the abuse of an innocent victim. By drawing on contemporary and historical examples, Ian urges listeners to reassess how justice, sovereignty, and intervention should...
Seth Leibsohn Radio Show AM960 Interview with Ian Faith
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Ian Faith’s appearance on the Seth Leibsohn Radio Show, Dec 31st, 2025 where Leibsohn shares how deeply moved he was by Confronting Evil in Our Time, a Christian devotional inspired by Lewis’s work. The discussion centers on how a paraphrased Screwtape insight about “noise” drowning out the voice of God became a catalyst for the book and podcast. Faith explains that spiritual warfare is usually quiet and gradual, not dramatic, working through distraction, anxiety, and self-absorption rather than ove...
Stage 4 to Cancer Free: The Miracle Patient Interview with Dan Thompson ~ Full Exclusive Interview
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Hear the story about a family man who had stage 4 metastasized cancer in multiple forms, how he heard the voice of God and what He told him, and how he was healed through his faith in Christ.
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The Coming of Christ. A Four-Part Christmas Journey. Ep4 Those Who Found Him: Shepherds and Magi
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This final episode of the Christmas series concludes the Screwtape Letters–themed exploration of Jesus’ birth by focusing on the immediate aftermath and the first witnesses to Christ’s arrival. Ian explains the meaning of Jesus’ name, Yeshua, “Yahweh saves,” and shows how it encapsulates God’s redemptive purpose. Drawing primarily from Luke 2, he highlights the angelic announcement to the shepherds, emphasizing that the good news of great joy was first revealed to the humble and overlooked, affirming that Christ ca...
The Coming of Christ. A Four-Part Christmas Journey. Ep3: The Journey: Bethlehem and the Birth of Jesus
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In this episode, Ian continues his Christmas series by walking listeners through the journey of Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus. He explains the historical and biblical context behind Caesar Augustus’ census, which required Joseph to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy. Ian highlights Joseph’s obedience to earthly authority while remaining faithful to God’s plan, underscoring how divine purposes often unfold through ordinary, even inconvenient, circumstances.
Ian...
Celebrate Christmas - A Listener Thank You Episode
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The episode opens with lighthearted conversation about Christmas memories before turning to its central message: Celebrate Christmas intentionally. The hosts thank listeners for their support throughout the year and emphasize that Christmas is a constant, an annual reminder of the bi...
