(Editor’s Note: Julia Duin, a Washington Times columnist, was discipled at L’Abri; Play’s producer/star attends Redeemer Presbyterian in NYC)

Perhaps everyone by now has at least heard of Max McLean’s production of “Screwtape,” the famous play about the letters of a senior devil (Screwtape) to Wormwood, a junior tempter. I am one of 75,000 people who have seen the 90-minute play.

In an era when many movie studios are nervous about filming anything too overtly Christian, here’s a stage production that keeps drawing them in. Its recent Washington run, which closed Sunday, was extended two weeks, and Mr. McLean will be on the road shortly to tour Houston and Austin, Texas, and then back to New York. The play ran for six months last year in Chicago.

Mr. McLean, who plays Screwtape in the two-man show, has his Fellowship for the Performing Arts (FPA) based in nearby Morristown, N.J., but a year ago, it opened a Manhattan office on West 42nd Street as a space for plays, rehearsals and Bible studies.

“It’s a small group, but more and more are coming,” he said about the Bible studies. “These are the Christians on Broadway who are acting in shows like ‘Shrek’ and ‘Phantom.’ They want to do good work, and they want work that speaks deeply.”

Mr. McLean attends Redeemer Presbyterian Church on the Upper East Side, which has a ministry to Christians in the arts, a bit unusual for Reformed churches. Founders of the Reformation in the 16th century were better known for destroying religious art, not encouraging it.

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