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Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute, and Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. Her literary-critical study Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages received the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. Her book Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography (Word on Fire Academic) is being published in time for the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death.

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	The Word in the Wilderness by Malcolm Guite (Goodreads Author), Holly Ordway (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.58 avg rating — 1,186 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms 4.05 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography 4.54 avg rating — 307 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Kind of Apologist: Adopting Fresh Strategies Addressing the Latest Issues *Engaging the Culture by Sean McDowell (General Editor), Holly Ordway (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages 4.43 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith 4.28 avg rating — 124 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and C.S. Lewis: What his life and literature reveal for today's culture by Carolyn Curtis (Editor), Mary Pomroy Key (Editor), Holly Ordway (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Faith: A Guide to Sharing the Gospel through Literature 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dios no va conmigo (Instituto John Henry Newman nº 11) (Spanish Edition) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literary Apologetics.Mag Volume 5: The Birth Mark by Holly Ordway (Goodreads Author), Anthony Horvath (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It wasn’t the promise of peace, or joy, or salvation that brought me to Christ, but the promise of truth.”
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“You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.”
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“Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain.”
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tags: christianity, happiness, joy, pain, philosophy

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