by Jonathan Miles | Apr 4, 2019 | Paradise, Sabbath, Screwtape Letters
As I write this, I am at the beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. My darling children are having a ball with their grandparents about a hundred miles from me. I have been thinking about two words for the last two hours. “Rest” and “Recreation.”...
by Jonathan Miles | Feb 8, 2018 | Academia, Academic Philosophy, Apologetics, Deception, Discernment, Gospel, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressive education, Screwtape Letters, Spiritual Warfare
In the first two letters, Lewis plants in Screwtape’s correspondence some philosophy and some ecclesiology.The philosophy is about the precariousness uses of argument. Screwtape dissuades Wormwood from using reason at all to corrupt his patient. “The...
by Jonathan Miles | Jan 18, 2018 | C.S. Lewis, Demons, Devil, Excorcism, Focus on the Family, John Cleese, Screwtape Letters
Do you ever have books that no matter how many times you encounter them you always get something new out of them? That’s the Screwtape Letters (SL) for me. Just recently I listened to one of the many audio book recordings. This one was well done but not as full...