Old Fashioned Sunday School (February 18, 2024) – The Rev. Canon George Maxwell

The Screwtape Letters: A Lenten Look at Life through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis.

Old Fashioned Sunday School with the Rev. Canon George Maxwell, from the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta

Part of life is being tested. The Lenten season marks the time that Jesus was tested by the devil in the wilderness. C. S. Lewis offers a satirical, but playful and perceptive take on the idea of such testing in The Screwtape Letters. In the letters, the senior devil, Screwtape, advises his nephew and devil-in-training, about how to best sabotage a human being’s attempts to live a faithful, fruitful, beautiful life. Lewis makes us laugh and then makes us cry as we realize how often we get in our own way. We will start preparing for Easter a little early this year and then (with one interruption) proceed through Lent by talking about some of the themes running through the letters. We will be working from a Lenten devotional titled C. S. Lewis And The Delightful, Diabolical Daring Of Lent: A Lenten Companion To “The Screwtape Letters.”