Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (chapters 22-31)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (Final Class)Chapters 22-31 Chapter 22Why is Wormwood sickened by the woman the patient has fallen in love with? Why do pleasures need to be twisted before they are of use to the demons? What is the … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 6 (chapters 17-21)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class 6Chapters 17-21 Another story of spiritual warfare: 1 Kings 18: 20-39 Chapter 17It seems that there are two types of gluttony: Delicacy and Excess. What are the differences? Is one worse than the other? In … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 5 (chapters 13-16)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Five Background Information on Spiritual Warfare: Where do demons come from? Revelation 12:9: And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 4 (chapters 9-12)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Four Another Real Case Study of Spiritual WarfareFrom The Acts of the Apostles (16:16-18) Now it happened, as we [Paul et al] went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met … [Continue reading]

A Paralytic, the Woman at the Well, and More on an Orthodox Political Economy

OrthoAnalyika Show: 2 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Homily on the Paralytic: Acts 9: 32 - 42; St. John 5 : 1 - 15 Introduction: Healing, not ReligionOur readings today give examples of Christ’s ministry to mankind (in the … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 3 (chapters 5-8)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Three A Real Case Study of Spiritual WarfareFrom St. Athanasius “The Life of Antony”, Ch. 5. But the devil, who hates and envies what is good, could not endure to see such a resolution in a youth, but … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 2 (chapters 1-4)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Two Review of Last Week: Who was C.S. Lewis? Why is fiction useful? What are three of his “main ideas”? WWII and the Battle of Britain: WWII began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great … [Continue reading]

Screwtape Letters, Class 1 (Preface)

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class One Who is C.S. Lewis? Why do we read someone who isn’t Orthodox? Born in Belfast, Ireland (11/29/1898). Atheist at 15, become interested in mythology and the occult, especially the myths of Northern Europe. … [Continue reading]

Myrrhbearers, Love, Gay Marriage, Death, and Taxes

OrthoAnalyika Show: 18 April 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast St. Mark 15:43-16:8 What the Myrrhbearers Teach Us about Love Introduction: today’s “Feast of Association”Today we celebrate a “Feast of Association”; a “Feast of … [Continue reading]

Pilgimages, Pascha, and an Orthodox Political Economy

OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 21 March 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast An Exhortation to Prepare for Pascha The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Goefrey Chaucer Whan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced … [Continue reading]