Wormwood is continually fouling things up and losing his grasp on his assigned human to “the Enemy”, aka God. We never hear Wormwood's replies, though we might guess their content by reading Screwtape's subsequent missives. I suppose I pictured something more colorful in terms of scenery and back-and-forth imbroglio this is simply a series of 31 letters that the elder demon composes, each commencing with "My Dear Wormwood". It is high time to remedy that omission! This is a small book with a fun premise: a high-ranking demon (Screwtape) writes his novice nephew (Wormwood) with advice on corrupting a human soul in order to ensure the man's damnation. One thing I had not read, however, was The Screwtape Letters, which served as a point of embarrassment. I had also consumed the Space Trilogy, The Problem of Pain, The Great Divorce, and repeatedly watched our VHS copy of Shadowlands, a 1993 film in which Anthony Hopkins portrays “Jack” Lewis. Lewis played an outsized role in my early understanding of faith and remains a major figure in Christianity a modern-day Paul in his influence as an expositor of belief. When I was a child, I thought like a child, I read like a child, and that included at least four complete runs through the entire Chronicles of Narnia series.
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