My eleven-year-old serves on the altar two Sundays a month and can tell you who destroyed the first and second temples, but even he objects when reminded that C. S. Lewis intended the Chronicles of Narnia as a retelling of the Christian story. “It’s also just a book,” says my son, by which he means that the Pevensie children’s trip through the wardrobe is also about the (...)
September 21, 2009
Books
Wardrobe Malfunction
The Magician’s BookA Skeptic’s Adventures in NarniaLaura MillerLittle, Brown and Company, $25.99, 320 pp.
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