You guys, the time has come.

Today is the day we are doing the Screwtap Letters.

I'm really excited. I have been waiting for a good time to dig into this book.

It's something you guys have requested a lot.

The Young Heretics Take on CS Lewis's Screwtap Letters.

It was long anticipated and we're going to do a two-part episode on it.

It's been a hot minute since we did a two-part episode.

I can't remember. I think the last one was The Kings of Rome.

This is just whenever something is really rich and merits great deal of attention.

Whenever I want to dig down into something, I kind of spread it out over a series of episodes.

This feels like a good one to do that with.

It's a much, much beloved book.

Yet, one of the glories of CS Lewis, one of the things he was so good at doing is

kind of concealing his learning, wearing his learning lightly.

Part of the fun of this show is we get to kind of take a little time and dig deeper into some of the stuff

that you might like gloss over if you were just reading kind of quickly.

Lewis, as we've discussed before, was an Oxford-educated scholar of literature,

a scholar of classics of ancient literature, but also of English literature.

He never, I don't think, even his sort of tossed off theological sides.

We're never done lightly.

We're never done without deep reflection, careful philosophical reasoning.

And if you do spend the time to unpack them, you can find just actually like,

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