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Hope the snow melts for our 9:30am Narnia outing tomorrow (a partnership with Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Church of the Ascension, and Shadyside Presbyterian Church), followed by a lunch which will include a presentation by Geneva College's Terry Thomas (one of my Higher Education Professors, fellow Grove City College alum) exploring a follower of Christ's understanding of imagination/wonder, informed by some of Lewis' insights and including a first reaction to the film.

Pray for the interactions at the theatre, the debrief afterward, and future conversations regarding the meaning of Christmas.

Here's a clip from the NY Times Review:

The supposed controversy over the religious content of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" may be overhyped, but a particular question of faith nonetheless hovers around the movie, which was produced by Walden Media and distributed by Disney. Anyone who grew up with the Narnia books is likely to be concerned less with Lewis's beliefs than with the filmmakers' fidelity to his work, which was idiosyncratic and imperfect in ways that may not easily lend themselves to appropriation by the shiny and hyperkinetic machinery of mass visual fantasy. But if a few liberties have been taken here and there, as is inevitable in the transition from page to screen, the spirit of the book is very much intact.