Evangelical Christianity is generally loquacious; Minnesota Swedes seldom are. My Swedish evangelical paternal grandparents talked little about their deeply held faith, and then only in sober tones.

In an age that trivializes evil, dismisses the supernatural, and reduces Christianity to therapy, Lewis’s vision is a bracing corrective.

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