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Rod Bennett

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Rod Bennett was for many years the editor of Wonder magazine, a cult-favorite media journal that numbered luminaries Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen among its devotees. He is the author of Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words and the science-fiction novel The Christus Experiment and the editor of the historical anthology Chesterton’s America. Bennett lives in Tennessee with his wife, Dorothy, and their two children.

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