One of these such events is our annual Narnia Feast at Cair Paravel. This year, though the Feast was missed at school due to the closure, we felt it was important enough to still make it happen with a live, virtual event for our families to join in together at home you can get ideas for your own At-Home Narnia Feast here.
Well, at Veritas, we just love Narnia and C. And just as the faun bemoaned in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe that under the White Witch's rule it was "always winter, but never Christmas," so it seems today, as we spend long days at home with all businesses closed just like on Christmas But there is hope, and you might find some here.
If you need a little inspiration for why a Narnia Feast might be worth celebrating in the midst of this dark and uncertain time, read on for a beautiful essay penned by Veritas Omnibus teacher, alumni parent, and friend of our school, Leslie Bustard. Teaching 7 th grade Secondary Books for the past three years has been a pure delight for me. What a gift to walk through the land of Narnia with my classes, and to help them see how C.
Lewis used his imagination, molded by his love of two favorite authors E. Nesbit and George MacDonald , his knowledge of medieval literature, and his rootedness in the Christian story, to write the Chronicles of Narnia. One cannot help but be drawn in to these stories; one cannot miss that C. Lewis loved his readers and loved telling a good story. I understand why a parent starts reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as soon as their child can sit still for a chapter, but then needs to pick the story up again for their own pleasure.
As I would often say to my students, C. He invited us in to use our imagination, all the while he was weaving an engrossing story. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , when spring came to Narnia, and the winter curse was being broken, we stumbled along with Edmund, and experienced with him what the coming spring looked like and sounded like.
We felt the ground grow muddy and heard the birds singing. Telling a good story and telling it well was very important to C.
Lewis, just as important as the foundational, Biblical truths he was pointing to. He was laying out in front of us a feast of truths about God and the world, but trusting us to see what we were ready to see. When C. Lewis wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , and then the rest of the Narnian tales, he sought to write stories that he himself would want to have read as a child.
But he also wanted to write stories that would re-enchant his readers with the truths of the Christian faith as found in the Scriptures. Writing these stories with this vision, he wanted to baptize the imaginations of those reading them—so that people who thought they knew everything about Christianity but were dulled by their knowledge could be re-awakened to its beauty; and so people who did not accept Christianity because they assumed they knew what it was all about could encounter these truths with new eyes.
It was hard to select just three; each book expresses such richness about the Christian life—from the sacrificial love in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , to transformational grace in The Silver Chair , to providential care in Horse and His Boy.
These are my three favorites, and I think they can speak into these present times. Lewis and Narnia. Go here to read Part 1 and Part 2.
Tyson and his sister Tammy grew up in the Midwest. Tyson and his family now live discreetly on the West Coast, very near a large orchid tree. If you would like to write a guest post for this blog, check out the guidelines here. Dorothy appeared to have no choice in the matter. Similarly, Lucy, in C. Lucy was seeking neither that place, nor the doorway to it.
Yet somehow she stumbled into another world, Narnia. Yet none of them can explain how they found the place. It was almost as if a doorway into Narnia unexplainably opened up to them. If Narnia was a fantasy, a creation in the mind of Lewis, then finding the doorway into that world would be as simple as Lewis creating a doorway of his liking.
Anyone might enter in, or the doorway might be available only to those chosen by its creator. In The Chronicles of Narnia , entrance into Narnia is limited to a select few. However, rather than those few finding the doorway, the doorway seems to find them. The doorway appears only to those whom it chooses. Edlothiad Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. It's important to note that in each incident, there was at least one person involved who did not expect to travel to Narnia: Lucy hides in the wardrobe and is unexpectedly transported to Narnia Lucy enters the wardrobe, expecting to go to Narnia.
Nobody else believes her at this point, so Edmund follows her to have a laugh at her expense, but finds himself in Narnia, where he meets the White Witch All four children hide in the wardrobe. Peter and Susan did not expect to go to Narnia Remember, Professor Kirke had also been to Narnia , and also as a child.
Hence what he tells the children at the end: "No," he said, "I don't think it will be any good trying to go back through the wardrobe door to get the coats. In Prince Caspian they're literally yanked off a railway platform In Voyage of the Dawn Treader they're sucked into a painting In The Silver Chair , Eustace invokes Aslan's name, but unexpectedly goes through a gate into Aslan's country. Improve this answer.
Ben Bolker 1, 7 7 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Machavity Machavity Indeed, it would be even more weird if only some of the people in the wardrobe would be able to travel to Narnia through it. At least this way, everyone's experience in a single location at a single time is consistent , if perhaps as much as inexplicable because, well, it's magic.
Buzz Buzz De-ageing is not required in the other books though. Certainly the characters would grow a little in that time, but not enough to be significant. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
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