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To: AnAmericanMother

I love Narnia! I also enjoyed the Screwtape Letters. I used the Screwtape Letters with my 7th grade Confirmation kids. They really understood it.


68 posted on 10/31/2014 7:45:47 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: defconw
Good job - perfect for the 7th graders - Screwtape is a sophisticated book but written (as Lewis so often did) in plain language. Scary book though. Lewis said that writing it gave him "a sort of spiritual cramp".

Newer editions are bound with "Screwtape proposes a toast" which is Lewis' take on public education. Everything he said has come true . . . .

69 posted on 10/31/2014 7:51:37 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: defconw
If you enjoyed Screwtape, I think you'll really enjoy The Great Divorce.

I SEEMED to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street. Evening was just closing in and it was raining. I had been wandering for hours in similar mean streets, always in the rain and always in evening twilight. Time seemed to have paused on that dismal moment when only a few shops have lit up and it is not yet dark enough for their windows to look cheering. And just as the evening never advanced to night, so my walking had never brought me to the better parts of the town. However far I went I found only dingy lodging houses, small tobacconists, hoardings from which posters hung in rags, windowless warehouses, goods stations without trains, and bookshops of the sort that sell The Works of Aristotle. I never met anyone. But for the little crowd at the bus stop, the whole town seemed to be empty. I think that was why I attached myself to the queue.

Online here: The Great Divorce

70 posted on 10/31/2014 7:56:03 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: defconw; AnAmericanMother
I love Narnia! I also enjoyed the Screwtape Letters. I used the Screwtape Letters with my 7th grade Confirmation kids. They really understood it.

If you liked Screwtape check out Peter Kreeft's "Snakebite letters." He did an updated version of "Screwtape" dealing with some contemporary issues and it is almost as good as Lewis.

73 posted on 10/31/2014 8:38:18 AM PDT by verga (You anger Catholics by telling them a lie, you anger protestants by telling them the truth.)
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