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Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

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The Rev. Dr. Michael Ward is an Anglican minister and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. It…

This resource provides extracts from Dr Paul Coulter's extensive study of The Shack.