Literature, CS Lewis & Conversion - Holly Ordway & Laura Miller - Unbelievable?

2013-06-29T00:00:00+01:00

Former atheist Holly Ordway came to Christian faith via poetry and literature. She tells her story and explains her passion for literary apologetics.

Laura Miller is an online literary critic and an agnostic. She loved the Narnia stories as a child but felt betrayed by CS Lewis after discovering their Christian symbolism as an adult.

Holly and Laura discuss the rights and wrongs of using literature for a Christian message. Do great art, poetry and literature point to a transcendent reality?

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