Inspired by the person and writings of C.S. Lewis, this book examines pertinent and pressing issues in living the Christian faith today. Experts in their fields share their insights and conclusions.

The famed thinker and writer, C.S. Lewis, addressed issues that were paramount and pressing for religious persons in his time. In this volume, and in honor of Lewis, experts in their fields examine topics and challenges that face Christians living their faith today. Originally delivered as invited public lectures in a decade-long series--The Annual C.S. Lewis Legacy Lectures at Westminster College in Missouri--they include faith and reason, theological imagination, religion and ecology, the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, antisemitism, Native American spirituality, science and religion, racism and poverty in the ministry and social action of Martin Luther King, Jr., misconceptions of Islam, religious pluralism, and religion and violence. The authors argue that these issues must be acknowledged and confronted in order for Christianity to remain, or to become relevant, in the current century.

Chapter One: Between Athens and Jerusalem: The Necessary Dilemma of Being a Thinking Christian, by Clifford Chalmers Cain

Chapter Two: Who are We? Whence, Whither, and Why? By Katharine Jefferts Schori

Chapter Three: The Theological Imagination of C.S. Lewis, by Michael Ward

Chapter Four: We Are All Related: The Relevance of Native American Spiritual Traditions, by William A. Young

Chapter Five: Religion, Politics, and Violence: Hope for the Perilous Journey in the Twenty-

First Century, by Charles Kimball

Chapter Six: To Serve This Present Age: Addressing Racism, Poverty, and Militarism Fifty Years after the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Marvin A. McMickle

Chapter Seven: From Other to Brother: An Unprecedented Rapprochement in Our Time, by Philip A. Cunningham

Chapter Eight: Faith in the Face of Fascism: Learning Again from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Larry G. Brown

Chapter Nine: Faith Faces the Future: Contemporary Challenges for Christianity, by Clifford Chalmers Cain