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NarniaFansCast – Episode 15

This week, host John Burkitt (EveningStar) swaps news and views with Colin Edson of New Zealand (Monkeh). We speculate about the announced opening date of Walden Media’s Prince Caspian (2008). […]

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Editorials

The Right and Left Paws of Aslan

The idea of a “left wing” and “right wing” in politics and society is a fluid one, subject to a lot of confusion. You can’t understand liberals unless you know what they want to liberate, and you can’t understand conservatives unless you know what they want to conserve….It may help us toward clarity if I attempt, presupposing what I think to be reasonable modern definitions of the left and right, to identify some places in The Chronicles Of Narnia where C.S. Lewis expressed sometimes liberal ideas, and sometimes conservative ones. […]

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C.S. Lewis

NarniaFansCast – Episode 14

Host John Burkitt is joined by London Boothman and Paul Martin to look into the news and views of the Narnia Fandom on this fourteenth episode of NarniaFansCast. The Bard’s Tale features a short play “Dying For Edmund” voiced by members of The Dancing Lawn’s Virtual Playhouse. […]

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C.S. Lewis

NarniaFansCast – Episode 13

John Burkitt (EveningStar), Paul Martin (Specter), and Roger Thomas (PrinceOfTheWest) team up to give the news and discuss it. The Bard’s Tale segment features a short story by John Burkitt, “The Statue in the Library.” In Movie Talk, we speculate when the first bits of “Prince Caspian” will make their way to audiences, and in Book Talk, we ask a couple of tricky questions of our panelists. Which ones? Listen and find out! […]

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C.S. Lewis

NarniaFansCast – Episode 12

The newest episode of NarniaFansCast has just been released! Join Paul Martin (Specter) and Austin Fury (CSLewisFan) as they discuss the news, talk about the upcoming movie, and answer questions submitted by YOU! Also included is a new short story by Roger Thomas (PrinceOfTheWest) called “Complications.” […]

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C.S. Lewis Books

Editorial: Fighting Evil Is Not Deifying War

A participant in this forum has complained that the Narnia movie departs from “the essence of Christianity,” and that it glorifies war. This person goes further by claiming that the “deification of war” is particularly associated with “right-wingers.”

Let me dismiss first the most easily dismissed contention…. […]