The Book I Keep Rereading—Even though It Gets Less Funny Each Time

The Book I Keep Rereading—Even though It Gets Less Funny Each Time by Randy Newman  for The Gospel Coalition C. S. Lewis would be disturbed to see The Screwtape Letters in a series about the benefits of reading old books. He’d say his book isn’t old enough. When he spoke of old books, he meant old books—works by Plato, Athanasius, or Aquinas. But I find that the gap between his 1940s writing and my rereading today is long enough to qualify it as “tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages”…

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