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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…

It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…