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"Hey, Who Smuggled the Gospel in Here?": Thoughts on Stranger Than Fiction

March 13th, 2007 | 2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Warning: I'm writing this assuming you've seen the film. There are spoilers. (Then again, C.S. Lewis thought it was a vulgar pleasure to want to know what happens in a story.)

"Harold," Dustin Hoffman's remarkable character flatly states, "I'm sorry. You are going to die."

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.