1 What kinds of people are considered “desirable acquaintances” by Screwtape?
2 What are the contemporary characteristics of such friends?
3 Are “old warnings” of “worldly vanities, the choice of friends, and the value of time” still important for post-modern lives?
4 How to fight inconsistencies such as enjoying blasphemy over coffee because we are aware of a “deeper” spiritual world?
5 When the difference between being “in” the world and being “of” the world hard to distinguish?
6 How can we avoid being “polluted” by the world?
7 How things like drinking, smoking, partying, etc. become fatal habits?
For Further Reading and Reflection
Reading: The Four Loves, The Inner Ring, Letters of CSL
Flowers of Narnia - July 17 / 2022
“Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully ...
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The discussions revolved around the pressures of the ordinary and how distractions interfere with o ur relationship to eternal matters.
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Continued - - - if you are interested - long reading - I should have read these advices before I edited a book last year :-) - - - - Now of...
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