When the Story Stops Telling Itself: A New Letter from C.S. Lewis

August 27th, 2013 | 3 min read

As the author of the bestselling children’s stories The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis inspired many young readers to take up the pen and write him in response. And they did not write in vain.

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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.

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When the Story Stops Telling Itself: A New Letter from C.S. Lewis

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