Book Club's June Read is The Screwtape Letters
Wednesday, June 5
With David Johnson’s guidance, book club members discussed Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, which they liked despite his long, complex sentences. Then they selected C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters for the June reading.
The popular book was published serially in The Guardian in 1941 and as a book in 1942. Written in defense of Christian faith, this popular satire consists of a series of 31 letters in which Screwtape, an experienced devil, instructs his young charge, Wormwood, on effective strategies for tempting the human being assigned to him and making sure he continues on a steady path toward damnation. But confounded by church attendance and a faithful Christian …, their efforts are defeated when their subject dies in a bombing raid with his soul at peace. (From Encyclopedia Britannica)
This short book allows the club to resume meeting on the first Wednesday of the month. The next meeting is June 5 following Evening Prayer at 5:00 pm.
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