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June of 2009

 

Rate London and Paris: Day 4

Original at Examiner.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

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In addition to that draw, it is also the setting of the His Dark Materials series and is where Tolkien, CS Lewis, and many others were inspired to create some of the great literature of the past century. Finally, it is the same place that inspired ...

Rate High-Concept Spiritual Novels

Original at Examiner.com external link    Sat, Jun 13

Although this story by Tosca Lee has undoubtedly already been compared to The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis or its modern day version Lord Foulgrin's Letters by Randy Alcorn, it only resembles them by the inclusion of a viable demon—except this one ...

Rate Christian vs. atheist, round 1

Original at Examiner.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

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While there may be differing frameworks of Morality or notions Justice, there is no question that an ultimate, true, objective standard exists among humanity—as CS Lewis thoroughly demonstrated in the opening chapters of “Mere Christianity. ...

Rate Wrong Ideas

Original at Christian Post external link    Thu, Jun 11

Years ago, the great thinker CS Lewis warned us, "If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones." I think this is especially important today. ...

Rate Hypothetical interview with CS Lewis: Difference between ...

Original at Examiner.com external link    Tue, Jun 9

As I said in Mere Christianity, I believe that many of the good pagans of old were in this sort of situation. They weren't themselves Christians, but the parts of their religion that they really focused on were the parts that were in agreement with ...

Rate Experience the magic of Narnia

Original at Abbotsford News external link    Sat, Jun 6

  Canada Members of Gallery 7 Theatre (clockwise, left to right) Adriel Brandt, Melissa Franson, Cody Friesen and Patrick Arnott, rehearse a scene from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. CS Lewis' beloved tale of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, ...

Rate (Lucille Lortel Theater; 198 seats; $95 top)

Original at Variety external link    Mon, Jun 1

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 CA Mr. Bobo, Other Mr. Bobo, Tall Girl - Elliot Villar Neil Gaiman's 2002 children's novel "Coraline" explores an unsettling world of dark enchantment that has drawn comparisons to the creations of Lewis Carroll and CS Lewis. This bewitching fairy tale ...

May of 2009

 

Rate A critique of CS Lewis's interpretation of disputed Old Testament ...

Original at Examiner.com external link    Mon, May 25

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Rate Holy longing: A meditation on Christian melancholy

Original at Examiner.com external link    Tue, May 19

I find that this sort of music evokes a deep sense of longing, perhaps akin to the concept of Sennsucht that CS Lewis discusses in his book Surprised by Joy. Literally, the word means “longing” in German, but with a sense of nostalgia, ...

Rate Open Road Theatre presents 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'

Original at wickedlocal.com external link    Tue, May 12

 MA Nick Celata, a sophomore at the high school playing Edmund Pevensie, said this is his first exposure to CS Lewis' classic book, despite the recent movie releases of the Chronicles of Narnia. He thinks it is a great story, saying “The audience is really ...

Rate The Return of the King

Original at National Review Online Blogs external link    Fri, May 8

 NY Much like his friend CS Lewis, he is remembered mostly for his original literature, despite his significant prowess and contributions as a scholar. Fans of Tolkien will get a special insight into the myths that inspired the creation of Middle Earth ...

Rate Beverly students in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'

Original at wickedlocal.com external link    Thu, May 7

  United States Beverly students Tyler Valentine, Nikolai Friedman, Karlee Hunt and Marissa Mason will perform in the Open Road Theatre's production of CS Lewis' book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16 at 7 pm and Sunday, ...

Rate Into the Wardrobe: CS Lewis's Narnia

Original at The Nation. external link    Thu, May 7

 NY Jordan Davis: Laura Miller's study of CS Lewis falls short of providing a coherent theory of Narnia's magic. Jordan Davis: Poet Kevin Davies asks: are you better off than you were 13000 years ago? Jordan Davis: What is it about Slovene poetry that has ...

Rate Coast scores Narnia production - Gold Coast News

Original at Gold Coast News external link    Wed, May 6    3 related articles

Coast scores Narnia production The blockbuster Chronicles of Narnia motion picture franchise is based on the popular novels by CS Lewis. The first film adaptation, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, grossed $745m worldwide in 2005. Queensland wins Narnia Inside Film

Rate Helping Christians Reconcile God With Science

Original at TIME external link    Fri, May 1

 - Amy Sullivan One possible explanation they offer — an idea that was embraced by CS Lewis, among others — is that human-like creatures had evolved to the point where they had the mental capacity to reason; God then endowed them to distinguish between good and evil, ...

Rate Genres within Christian fiction, part 1

Original at Examiner.com external link    Fri, May 1

My favorites are by CS Lewis, written decades ago. But this is a growing genre with plenty to choose from. Fantasy – An imaginary world with imaginary creatures. The world can differ from ours slightly or in every way. Often the author establishes a ...

Rate Embrace your bias

Original at ASU Web Devil external link    Thu, Apr 30

 AZ CS Lewis, the Oxford theologian, said it best: “Suppose there were no intelligence behind the universe. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely a by-product of some atoms within my skull. ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Satan's not real? No wonder we're a mess

Original at The Free Lance-Star external link    Wed, Apr 29

 VA CS Lewis later captured this sentiment in "The Screwtape Letters," stating there are two equal and opposite errors one can make about devils: to disbelieve in their existence or to develop an unhealthy preoccupation with them. The survey also reflects ...

Rate Williams rises to top of scoring world

Original at Variety external link    Wed, Apr 22

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 CA The grand-scale Gregson-Williams, however, has attracted the most attention of late: Golden Globe and Grammy nominations for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the CS Lewis fantasy that demanded a sweeping, romantic score ...

Rate What is an Everyday Miracle?

Original at Examiner.com external link    Mon, Apr 20

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CS Lewis really nails the concept when he talks about charity in Mere Christianity. “Charity means love in the Christian sense. But love in the Christian sense does not mean an emotion. It is a state, not of feelings, but of the will. ...

Rate The Controversialist

Original at ChristianityToday.com external link    Fri, Apr 17

 IL The tone was irenic, its arguments largely familiar to readers of CS Lewis and Francis Schaeffer. That spring, at the invitation of Christianity Today, Wilson wrangled with Hitchens in a six-part debate entitled "Is Christianity Good for the World? ...

Rate Andrée Seu

Original at World Magazine external link    Fri, Apr 10

 NC Keep everything hazy in his mind" (The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis). September 2001 and September 2008 were close calls—engineered by our best minds but twisted, as usual, by the Enemy for his own purposes. He does the same with that sideshow in Iraq ...

Rate Out of the boat

Original at World Magazine external link    Fri, Apr 10

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 NC For example, I host a monthly discussion called "Lewis and Linguini": I cook a little pasta, we have people bring desserts and wine, and we have a good dis-cussion about a great CS Lewis essay that has contemporary application. ...

Rate Is atheism really the most rational option?

Original at Canada.com external link    Thu, Apr 9

 Canada CS Lewis argued that scientific materialism is ruined by one fundamental inconsistency. Its proponents asked him to believe, in the name of science, that reason had arisen in the universe as a result of particles of matter moving randomly about over an ...

Rate Discovering the Narnia Code

Original at blog.oup.com external link    Thu, Apr 9

I just stumbled across it. The code, that is. The Narnia code. Many people know that CS Lewis dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to his god-daughter, Lucy Barfield. Last summer I met one of his other god-children, Laurence Harwood. ... Magic of Narnia casts its spell Newham Recorder

Rate Faircrest drama club travels to Narnia for spring production

Original at Press external link    Wed, Apr 8

 OH This will be the land the cast and audience will visit during the spring production of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" from The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis. The production will be at Faircrest Memorial Middle School Gym at 7 pm Thursday, ...

Rate Narnia’s Wardrobe or Magician’s Nephew: Which Comes First?

Original at Crosswalk.com external link    Fri, Apr 3

 VA Before their bedtime each night, I’m reading CS Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my three oldest sons. I’m doing this because it’sa great story. But I’m also doing it because Lewis’s Narnia stories are, I believe, what shaped and molded ...

Rate "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" to enchant Poly this weekend

Original at Mustang Daily external link    Wed, Apr 1

 CA The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" musical is based on the first novel from CS Lewis' series "The Chronicles of Narnia." Theatreworks USA has been performing the musical since 1993 and it's been one of its most successful productions. ...

March of 2009

 

Rate ABC's Nightline faceoff on Satan an exercise in futility

Original at renewamerica.us external link    Fri, Mar 27

 DC Rev 20:10f) CS Lewis said that modern man is so arrogant that if Christ were here today in his public ministry they wouldn't argue with him. Lewis said, they would invite him to dinner, hear what he had to say and then spend the remainder of the ...

Rate Beverly Lewis Fans Await New Amish Series by the Bestselling Author - PR-USA.net

Original at pr-usa.net external link    Mon, Mar 16

Her bestselling books are among the CS Lewis Noteworthy List Books, and both The Postcard and Annika's Secret Wish have received Silver Angel Awards. Of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, she grew up in Lancaster County, which became the inspiration for her ...

Rate Dr. Radaker to offer portrayal: “A Visit from CS Lewis”

Original at Anderson University Ravens external link    Fri, Mar 13

 IN This fall Dr. Kevin Radaker, Professor of English and Department Chair, will begin offering a dramatic portrayal of CS Lewis entitled, “A Visit from CS Lewis.” The program lends insight into the life and writings of one of the most renown Christian ...

Rate KIDS: "Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (3/14-3/15 ...

Original at Rochester City Newspaper external link    Wed, Mar 11

 NY By Jen Graney on March 11, 2009 I wish I had a wardrobe like the one that leads Lucy to Narnia. I mean, it could actually hold all my shoes! The first in the familiar, imagination-opening "Chronicles of Narnia" series by CS Lewis takes a musical turn ...

February of 2009

 

Rate Sugar Creek Players Presents: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Original at thepaper24 external link    Wed, Feb 25

 MD Dramatized by Joseph Robinette from the classic story by CS Lewis and set in the land of Narnia, the play faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his struggle with the White Witch, and the adventures of four children who ...

Rate The Narnia the Might have been

Original at Narnia Fans external link    Tue, Feb 17

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There was one problem, Marshall says, that he couldn’t solve: adapting CS Lewis’ fantasy series “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Kennedy/Marshall had the property at Paramount from 1993-99, but in the pre-CG age, they couldn’t create the imaginary worlds. ...

Rate Free Narnia exhibition transforms deserted shop in Edmonton

Original at Enfield & Haringey Independent external link    Fri, Feb 13

Enfield & Haringey Independent, UK Narnia is the creation of children's author CS Lewis whose story of four children finding the magical world of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe has endured for 50 years. In Narnia it is winter, but never Christmas, thanks to the White Witch, ...

Rate Tumnus’s Book Shelf: The NarniaFans Book Reviews: The Weight of Glory

Original at Narnia Fans external link    Thu, Feb 5

Welcome to Tumnus’s Book Shelf where we review any and all books related to The Chronicles of Narnia and CS Lewis! For today’s book we will be covering CS Lewis’s The Weight of Glory. The Weight of Glory collects nine different sermons or lectures ...

Rate Chronicles of Narnia Book Club Opens in Leaky Lounge

Original at The Leaky Cauldron.org external link    Sat, Jan 31

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 MA The doors of our Non-Harry Potter Book Club have opened once again today for the reading of three novels from the The Chronicles of Narnia series by author CS Lewis. This time around, focus in Jo's Book Nook turns to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Opinion: White witch from Chronicles of Narnia named Scariest Literary ...

Original at Thaindian.com external link    Sat, Jan 17

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White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis 1950) 3. The Grand High Witch (The Witches by Roald Dahl 1983) 5. Cruella de Vil (The Hundred and One ... The Witch report pinpoints worst baddie Scotsman Nonfiction review: "The Magician's Book" The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

Rate January School's Out Movie: Prince Caspian

Original at tcnewsnet.com external link    Tue, Dec 30

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a epic fantasy film based on Prince Caspian, the second published novel in the CS Lewis fantasy series, ... Doubt over third Narnia film for Ilkley actress Georgie Henley Ilkley Gazette No fairytale this time as Disney says no to Narnia Belfast Tel...

Rate COMPETITION: Escape to the magical land of Narnia with The REP ...

Original at Halesowen external link    Thu, Dec 4

For a chance to win simply answer the question: Who wrote The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe? Is it: A – CS Lewis B – Lewis Carrol C – Christmas Carrol ... Review: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Birmingham ... BirminghamMail.net The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Stage

Rate BLU-RAY REVIEW: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Original at Eclipse Magazine external link    Mon, Dec 1

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Bigpicturebigsound.com  CA - Dec 1, 2008 The writers Andrew Adamson (screenplay), Christopher Markus (screenplay), and Stephen McFeely took the best of CS Lewis’ work and expanded it to make it ... New on DVD Tulsa World all 14 news articles

Rate Movie Review: The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Original at Blogcritics external link    Mon, Dec 1

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After having been pleasantly surprised by the excellent job done in bringing the first book of CS Lewis' Narnia stories,The Lion, The Witch, ... Win THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN on DVD from IESB! IESB.NET The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian DVD Review NewsBlaze

Rate Narnia fic: "Dust in the Air" (prologue)

Original at bedlamsbard (Livejournal) external link    Mon, Oct 13

By bedlamsbard Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to CS Lewis. Certain characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to Walden Media. Title and quote from TS Eliot's Four Quartets: Little ...

Rate Lewis Redux

Original at web.me.com external link    Mon, Apr 28

BRUCE L. EDWARDS, speaker in Cleveland, Fresno, Tampa, and Toledo. His Narnia on Tour presentation: "Further Up and Further In: The Spiritual World of Narnia." He is a professor of English at Bowling Green State University and author of Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia (Tyndal...

Rate How Landscapes Influenced Lewis

Original at web.me.com external link    Mon, Apr 28

My first experience with the fiction works of C. S. Lewis was with reading The Chronicles of Narnia. My wife and I were on vacation in England in 1966 when I bought my first of many sets of the Narnia stories. Specifically, it was a passage in my first American edition of Surprised By Joy that stopp...

Rate Holy Pleasures of Narnia

Original at web.me.com external link    Mon, Apr 28

Let’s first review the basic facts about Lewis, and how he came to write The Chronicles of Narnia. From that time on, Jack spent only holidays at his childhood home in Belfast. Most of the year he lived in England: first at boarding school, then with his tutor, then at Oxford University.

Rate Picky to Fault The Book-to-Movie

Original at web.me.com external link    Mon, Apr 28

In that light, I note finally Lewis’s great accomplishment with Narnia. We recall his famous late-night talk with Tolkien and Dyson in 1931, the one that resulted in Lewis realizing that a myth could remain a myth and still be a fact. What Lewis has done in The Chronicles is to re-mythologize...

Rate Opinion: A Little Child Shall Lead Them

Original at web.me.com external link    Mon, Apr 28

The creators of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe couldn’t hope for a better review. As for me, I’m looking forward to the next scheduled film adaptation, Prince Caspian. BEATRICE GORMLEY, author of C.S. Lewis: T Man Behind Narnia (Eerdmans, 2005) (Narnia on Tour...

Rate Impossible!

Original at web.me.com external link    Mon, Apr 28

A Review of Disney's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - “Impossible!” said Susan, when she first saw the land of Narnia. “Impossible!” said the White Witch, when she saw Aslan alive again. Those two one-word sentences summarize the plot of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and they pr...

Year 2007

 

Rate Climate Conspiracy Theory (w/apologies to CS Lewis)

Original at Acton Institute PowerBlog - Environmental Stewardship external link    Mon, Apr 2

Our Father always encourages in humans the sense of ownership – ownership of life, body, time, the elements, & etc. Humans are always putting up claims to ownership which sound equally funny in Heaven and Hell. Much of his environmentalism (such an artful term!) comes from the patient...

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