Screwtape on Celebrity Culture

Issue #9: Contradictory theology, new seeker sensitive churches, American faith, and more

On August 14, 1959, the American satellite Explorer 6 sent the first photo of the Earth from orbit. For the first time in our existence, humanity could gain a glimpse of our physical size compared to the universe at large.

Later that year, Lewis described our tendency to shrink ourselves even smaller by casting off our individual wills and blindly follow…