Have you ever felt completely numb by your everyday life that big questions like "What is the meaning of life?" just seem ridiculous.

"Keep impressing upon him the ordinariness of things" is Screwtape's advice to Wormwood in this first letter of The Screwtape Letters. We open with a corker addressing questions like...

• Is there more to life than this?


• Should we ask whether an idea is indeed true?


• Is science in conflict with faith?

Through Screwtape's anxieties, Lewis highlights just how much we can access God by engaging our own curiosity and asking questions of both philosophy and science. God's existence is marked by the material and spiritual world, so in order for a demon to successfully dissuade the patient from discovering Him in either, he must prevent the patient from engaging in arguments. Because arguments prompt questions, and the true answers, then, aren't far behind...

In the preface of The Screwtape Letters, Lewis tells the reader that there are two "equal and opposite errors" that we can fall into regarding demons. One is to choose not to believe in their existence; the other is to believe and have an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. But most of us don't go worshipping demons... so what does that look like for us if we fell into either of those camps? Christina attempts to break down what is essentially a challenging warning as well as an invitation for how we might read these letters from one demon to another: letters that, while fictional, wrestle with real spiritual struggles.

Have you always wanted to be one of those wine and cheese and book club kind of people? Well, pop open your favourite red (if that's your thing) and nestle down in your comfiest chair. For all our book nerds who love engaging their curiosity and creativity, here's a little sneak peek of the magical world of C.S. Lewis we're about to embark on starting October 31st, 2023.