Book Club

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Next Book Club Meeting

Date/Time

Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:30pm.

Place

Grace (See map link on Grace's home page.)

Current Book

Screwtapes Letters - by C.S. Lewis.

For Discussion Here

From the award-winning audio drama team that brought you Radio Theatre’s Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia. In his enduringly popular masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis re-imagines Hell as a gruesome bureaucracy. With spiritual insight and wry wit, Lewis suggests that demons, laboring in a vast enterprise, have horribly recognizable human attributes: competition, greed, and totalitarian punishment. Avoiding their own painful torture as well as a desire to dominate are what drive demons to torment their “patients.” The style and unique dark humor of The Screwtape Letters are retained in this full-cast dramatization, as is the original setting of London during World War II. The story is carried by the senior demon Screwtape played magnificently by award-winning actor Andy Serkis (“Gollum” in Lord of the Rings) as he shares correspondence to his apprentice demon Wormwood. All 31 letters lead into dramatic scenes, set in either Hell or the real world with humans—aka “the patient,” as the demons say—along with his circle of friends and family. This Radio Theatre release also stars Geoffrey Palmer (Tomorrow Never Dies), Laura Michelle Kelly (Sweeney Todd), Eileen Page (The Secret Garden), and other world-class actors.

Next Book

''The Gernsey Literary and otato Peel Pie Society - By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

Considerations for Planning Future Meetings

(Please include your own considerations here.)

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Next Book

General Suggestions:

• Why I am a Lutheran by Daniel Preus (At Amazon)

• Conversations with Rabbi Small by Harry Kemelman. This is a modern, unbelieving Jew's apologetic about the Jewish religion.

• Lilith by George MacDonald?. The full text is online.

Another possibility: The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death

Responses? Other suggestions, write them below this paragraph! --PastorJJacobsen

Quotations for general edification

Please copy some of your favorite quotations below. They need not be from sources we have read. When you edit this page, you will see the kind of markup used to include this first poem.

Death Be Not Proud (John Donne)

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Batter My Heart (John Donne)

Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town to'another due,
Labor to'admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly'I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
Divorce me,'untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you'enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.