Good morning, Bridgetown and any of you listening, John Mark Comer here. Welcome to the Bridgetown

daily for Tuesday, April 14. It is another drop dead, beautiful spring day in Portland,

Oregon. I don't know about you, but I cannot wait to get out later today for my daily run.

At six feet minimum distance, I promise. But to get out and breathe a little fresh air,

go for a run for Forest Park and downtown. I can't wait. For our daily today, I just want to

read to you a short excerpt from a book I love. I recently read The Vanishing of the American

Adult by Ben Sassy and in it is a chapter on the idea of a family canon and his basic ideas,

you know, take as a family or as a couple, or just for your own life, take 50 or 60 books that

are the most important books in your kind of spiritual formation, your political philosophy, your

life values system, and compile a canon of books that you come back to and read and reread over a

lifetime as a family to really give shape to the ethos of your kind of family line. So we recently

started to compile our family canon. And one of the first books to go in was A Favorite of Mine,

A Favorite of My Lovely wife, T's. It's called Screw Tape Letters. I'm reading it right now. It's

by C.S. Lewis. I'm reading it right now with my 14 year old son. Each chapter is just about three

pages long. And so most nights before bed, we plop down in the couch and we read a chapter from

Screw Tape Letters. And he's loving it as well. And it's just brilliant. If you're familiar with

the work, 1941 written right in the middle of World War II from England by C.S. Lewis. And prior

to that, fun aside, C.S. Lewis was basically a professor, I think, of medieval literature who was

not known outside of the academic world. But it was the writing of Screw Tape Letters and then a

series of radio broadcasts for the BBC that later became his most famous book, Mirror Christianity,

that really put him on the map and turned him into the kind of Christian public intellectual that

we know him as. And I do think there's an interesting aside there that it was all due to the crisis

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