Sermons on Narnia

It turns out that even my pastor has caught Narnia fever. He’s going to do three sermons on C.S. Lewis in December. I suppose it’s easy to have a bandwagon mentality considering the vast coverage that the film is receiving in not only Christian magazines and journals but also in the mainstream media. Unfortunately, one can only do so much in a sermon on a Sunday morning. I would recommend reading the following Hollywood Jesus blog, especially for the analyses of all seven books. And with regard to the life and works of Lewis, one of the best sites is C.S. Lewis: 20th-Century Knight. One could spend a lot of time following all the links to papers and other Lewis sites. Of course, although Lewis is probably my favourite writer (if he isn’t he’s definitely in the top three), there are others who deserve attention. Dostoyevsky, for example. Once you read The Brothers Karamazov you may wonder why you wasted your time on all the pap and fluff that usually passes by one’s eyes. The great mysteries of life are often best explored in works of fiction. Lewis and Dostoyevsky provide some of the best of those works.