INTRODUCTION
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2. World Health Organization, “Depression: Fact Sheet,” April 2016, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/.
3. Sabrina Tavernise, “U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High,” New York Times, April 21, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html?_r=0; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), 2013, 2011, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/statistics/index.html; Gregg Zoroya, “Suicide Surpassed War as the Military’s Leading Cause of Death,” USA Today, October 31, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2014/10/31/suicide-deaths-us-military-war-study/18261185/.
CHAPTER 1: IS THERE A HOPE THAT REALLY OVERCOMES ALL THIS?
1. “Outlandish Proverbs”, ed. George Herbert, in The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert, vol. 3 (1640; repr., London: Robson and Sons, 1874), 324.
2. Lilas Trotter, quoted in Many Beautiful Things, directed by Laura Waters Hinson (Oxvision Films LLC, 2015).
3. Matthew 6:34.
4. Victoria Woollaston, “How Often Do You Check Your Phone?” dailymail.com, October 29, 2015, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3294994/How-check-phone-Average-user-picks-device-85-times-day-twice-realise.html.
5. Alexia LaFata, “Texting Has the Same Effect as an Orgasm, That’s Why You’re Addicted,” Elite Daily, November 12, 2014, http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/receiving-text-message-like-orgasm/845037/.
6. “Illegal Drug Use,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 27, 2016, http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/documents/s19032en/s19032en.pdf.
7. Katie Rogers, “Leslie Jones, Star of ‘Ghostbusters,’ Becomes a Target of Online Trolls,” New York Times, July 19, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/movies/leslie-jones-star-of-ghostbusters-becomes-a-target-of-online-trolls.html?_r=0.
8. Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (New York: Random House, 2005), xvi; Stacy Lu, “Turning Lives Around with Hope,” American Psychological Association 45, no. 10 (2014): 26; Caroline Leaf, Switch On Your Brain (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013), 31–53.
9. Dante, Inferno, Canto III, (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1884). Kindle edition.
10. G. K. Chesterton, William Blake (London: Duckworth; New York: Dutton, 1910), 131.
11. “Imelda Marcos,” Wikipedia, accessed May 17, 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_Marcos.
12. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1945), 134.
CHAPTER 2: THE RENEWAL OF ALL THINGS
1. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (London: HarperCollins, 1995), 63.
2. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1998), 395.
3. N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope (New York: HarperOne, 2008), 93.
4. P. G. Müller, Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, vol. 1, ed. Horst Balz and Gerhard Schneider (1978; repr., Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans), 129–30.
5. Wright, Surprised by Hope, 104.
6. Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay, “Buddhism,” in Life after Death in World Religions, ed. Harold Coward (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997), 87–93; Axel Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 154–58.
7. C. S. Lewis, Essay Collections and Other Short Pieces (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 9.
CHAPTER 3: LET US BE HONEST
1. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843; repr., Mineola, NY: Dover, 1991), 61.
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Old Manse,” in Mosses from an Old Manse, vol. 1 (1846; repr., New York: Modern Library, 2003), 21–22.
3. “Assassin’s Creed,” Wikipedia, accessed January 30, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed; “The Elder Scrolls,” Wikipedia, accessed January 30, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls.
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5. Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on Christian Life (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2004), 53.
6. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (Indianapolis: Hacket, 2004), 219.
CHAPTER 4: THE NEW EARTH
1. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954; repr., New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004), 281.
2. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908; repr., Chicago: Moody Classics, 2009), 20–22.
3. Ibid., 82.
4. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, 35–41.
5. John Muir, “The Yosemite National Park,” Atlantic Monthly (1899) 2002, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/1899aug/muir.htm.
6. Jess Zimmerman, “Elephants Hold Vigil for Human Friend,” Grist, May 14 2012, http://grist.org/animals/elephants-hold-vigil-for-human-friend/.
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8. “Dolphin Communication,” Dolphin Research Center, accessed January 30, 2017, https://www.dolphins.org/communication.
9. Nick Jans, A Wolf Called Romeo (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt, 2014).
10. George MacDonald, quoted in Rolland Hein, ed., The Heart of George MacDonald (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw, 1994), 15.
11. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970), 87, emphasis mine.
12. C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 213–14, 219.
CHAPTER 5: OUR RESTORATION
1. C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (New York: HarperCollins, 1953), 237–39.
2. George Herbert, Herbert: Poems (London: Random House, 2004), 215.
3. See chapter 1 in my book Beautiful Outlaw (New York: FaithWords, 2011).
4. 2 Samuel 6:12–15.
5. Psalm 103:12.
6. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score (New York: Penguin, 2014), 280, 282.
7. Gary Black, Preparing for Heaven (New York: HarperOne, 2015), 29.
8. Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1978; repr., New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 217.
9. C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (New York: HarperCollins, 1954), 221–22.
10. Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2005), overall theme of the book.
CHAPTER 6: WHEN EVERY STORY IS TOLD RIGHTLY
1. C. S. Lewis, On Stories and Other Essays on Literature (New York: Harcourt, 1966), 83.
2. 1 Corinthians 16:13 NASB.
3. Thomas Cahill points this out in How the Irish Saved Civilization (New York: Random House, 1995).
4. Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 13.
5. Ibid., 15.
6. Ibid., 45.
7. Ibid., 69.
8. Ibid., 69–70.
9. Ibid., 97.
10. Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization, 117–18.
11. C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (New York: Touchstone, 1975), 26.
12. C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (New York: Collier, 1952), 96–97.
13. Ibid., 100.
14. C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, (New York: HarperCollins, 1953), 21.
15. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, (1954; repr., New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004), 952–53.
CHAPTER 7: THE OVERTHROW OF EVIL
1. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; repr., New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 28–29.
2. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950; repr., New York: Harper, 1978), 142.
3. Ibid., 161–62.
4. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, (1954; repr., New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 842.
5. “Prostitution Statistics,” Havocscope: Global Black Market Information, http://www.havocscope.com/prostitution-statistics.
CHAPTER 8: WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY DO?
1. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1998), 399.
2. Ibid., 378.
3. Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees (London: Peter Owen, 1989), 8.
4. Ibid., 17–18.
5. Ibid., 23–25.
6. Ibid., 34, 37–38.
7. Ibid., 39.
8. N. T. Wright, quoted in David Van Biema, “Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop,” Time, February 7, 2008, http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html.
9. George MacDonald, Diary of an Old Soul (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1994), 30.
CHAPTER 9: THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
1. C. S. Lewis, The World’s Last Night and Other Essays (New York: Harcourt, 1952), 93.
2. Ibid., 106.
3. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1998), 84–85.
4. C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, (New York: HarperCollins, 1953), 239.
5. T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–1962 (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963), 99–100.
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s Short Stories (1946; repr., New York: Vintage, 1973), 243.
7. Black, Preparing for Heaven, 91, 127–28.
CHAPTER 10: GRAB HOLD WITH BOTH HANDS
1. Wallace Stegner, Marking the Sparrow’s Fall (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992), 5–6.
2. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952; New York: HarperOne, 1980), 135.
3. Gary Black, Preparing for Heaven, (New York: HarperOne, 2015), 38.
4. Peter Kreeft, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990), 20.