View from East Tennessee

On Lions, Witches, Wardrobes, and Demoninational Differences

July 7th, 2005 at 10:27 pm (Christianity, Family, Entertainment)

Rain.

Rain.

Horrid headache.

Because of the rain.

Five inches of rain, remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy. Don’t know where she came from, just know she’s some unwelcome windbag visiting from somewhere south of here, making my head pound.

Go away.

And so it’s probably just a lazy evening of reading until it’s late enough that I can fall asleep secure in the knowledge that I won’t wake up until it’s time.

C.S. Lewis tonight. Amazing guy. Proof that the tenets common to all Christians are sufficiently multi-layered to hold our interest for eternity without succumbing to the perverse temptation of making things interesting by focusing on the minutiae of our denominational differences.

Mere Christianity, indeed.

Odd. When I first typed “denominational,” it came out “demoninational.” Hmmm. Nothing to it, I’m sure. Probably a result of too much time listening to Rindercella in anticipation of Hillbilly Holiday, 2005. But still, hmmm.

Anyway, I learned the other day that Disney’s releasing Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia this Christmas season. Check out the trailer for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe here. Can’t tell if it’s the only one planned, or if they’re going to do some or all of the others. I predict they’ll get 90% of the Harry Potter crowd and almost all of the Christian families crowd who generally don’t see many movies.

Notwithstanding people like this, I think it’ll be huge.

December 9, 2005. Plan to be there.

In the meantime, do like Freaktoe and I are doing, and read the books. She just finished The Horse and His Boy, and I, just having finished The Magician’s Nephew, am starting The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Or, if you just want to watch something, rent Shadowlands.

And thank our God for Clive Staples.