15. David Briggs, “Henri Nouwen Tops Clergy’s Reading Lists,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 4, 2003). http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/995088/posts accessed August 26, 2019.
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16. Briggs, “Henri Nouwen.”
17. Briggs, “Henri Nouwen.”
18. Christianity Today, “Books of the Century” (April 24, 2000). https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/april24/5.92.html
19. See: Joseph Pearce, Monaghan: A Life (Charlotte: TAN Books, 2016); Francis S. Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (New York: Free Press, 2006).
20. Christianity Today, “Books of the Century.”
21. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1976), 130.
22. Colson, Born Again, 130.
23. Charles W. Colson, “The Conversion of a Skeptic,” Mere Christians: Inspiring Stories of Encounters with C. S. Lewis, ed. Mary Anne Phemister and Andrew Lazo (Friendswood: Bold Vision Books, 2017), 93.
24. See: Phemister and Lazo, Mere Christians.
25. See: Albrecht, “The Enduring Legacy of C. S. Lewis.”
26. For a discussion of less flattering perceptions of C. S. Lewis see: Stephanie L. Derrick, Chapter 2 “Lewis Among His Peers: Oxbridge, c.1930s–1950s,” The Fame of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 46–78. For a refutation of Derrick’s conclusions see: Andrew J. Spence, A Book Review from Books at a Glance, Review published, April 29, 2019. https://www.booksataglance.com/book-reviews/the-fame-of-c-s-lewis-a-controversialists-reception-in-britain-and-america-by-stephanie-derrick/ Accessed June 17, 2019.
27. See: Kathryn Lindskoog, “A. N. Wilson Errata,” Into the Wardrobe: A C. S. Lewis Website. http://cslewis.drzeus.net/papers/wilson-errata/ Accessed April 21, 2017; Arend Smilde, “Sweetly Poisonous in a Welcome Way: Reflections on a Definitive Biography,” Lewisana.NIL http://lewisiana.nl/definitivebiography/ Accessed April 21, 2017; Bruce L. Edwards, “A Review of A. N. Wilson,” C. S. Lewis: A Biography, http://personal.bgsu.edu/~edwards/Wilson.html Accessed April 21, 2017.
28. See: “New Criticism,” Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org, 2016.
29. See: George M. Marsden. C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
30. Terry Lindvall, Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C. S. Lewis (Nashville, Tennessee, Thomas Nelson, 1996).
31. See: Kathryn Lindskoog, Sleuthing C. S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands (Mercer University Press, 2001), 1.
32. Bruce R. Johnson, “C. S. Lewis and the BBC’s Brains Trust: A Study in Resiliency,” VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review 30 (2013): 67–92.
33. Johnson, “Brains Trust.”
34. Walter Hooper, “Remembering C. S. Lewis,” C. S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner, ed. Michael Ward and Peter Williams (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2016), 228.
35. Hooper, “Remembering C. S. Lewis.”
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36. Membership in the Church of England dropped to 14 percent in 2018 down from 31 percent in 2002. Regular attendance in Britain fell by 15 percent from 2007 to 2017. See: Megan Specia, “English Cathedrals Offer More Than Exalted Architecture. But Mini Golf?” New York Times (August 14, 2019), A 7.
37. Ward and Williams, C. S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner.
38. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry,” They Asked for a Paper (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962), 165.
39. Rowan Williams, “Address to Commemorate Lewis in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey,” November 22, 2013 http://www.lewisiana.nl/poetscorner/
40. For a summary of Lewis’s continued popularity see: Samuel Joeckel, The C. S. Lewis Phenomenon (Mercer: Mercer University Press, 2013).
41. M. Roger White, Judith Wolfe and Brendan N. Wolfe ed. C. S. Lewis & His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
42. Lewis married Joy in a civil ceremony in 1956. It was a “technical” marriage so that she could use Lewis’s citizenship to remain in England. They were married the next year by an Anglican Priest after Joy discovered she had cancer and Lewis discovered that she really did love Joy.
43. Nellie Andreeva, “Netflix to Develop ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ TV Series & Films,” Deadline Hollywood, October 3, 2018 https://deadline.com/2018/10/netflix-the-chronicles-of-narnia-tv-series-and-films-eone-1202475272/