Pints with Jack, season four, episode 74.

Screw tape proposes a toast. Part four, the last. A Few Good Men.

Welcome, everyone. Pints with Jack is your weekly C.S. Lewis podcast, where David, Andrew, and I break down and discuss

the works of C.S. Lewis. This season, we are eavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior

demon screw tape, as he explains how to tempt the patient, a human assigned to be tempted by

screw tape's nephew, Wormwood. Each week will be considering a different letter, untwisting

screwtap's hellish logic, and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives. But we are done

with the letters and almost done with the final part. The screw tape proposes a toast.

So it's a slightly different part. And Andrew, it's you and I again recording.

So we got to do the last part and we get to finish with the very final part of this proposal.

Oh, and what a joy.

So I have done a little research.

I was a little unclear.

It was close last time.

Screw tape proposes a toast was written by Lewis in 1959 and published on December 19th,

1959, so before Joy's passing away.

And it was published in the Saturday Evening Post, which published some of Lewis's things.

And so that's the very end of the book. But I hope it's not the end for our listeners.

I don't know if you found this Matt and our listeners have found it as well. Screw tape. Jerry

Rout refers to C.S. Lewis as kind of a lifelong author, an author of a lifetime. And

screw tape is one of those books that repays and gives good dividends

year after year, read after read. And so I hope it's not the last time you and I and our listeners

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