Narnia's lion really is Jesus
Christopher Morgan

AN unpublished letter from the novelist C S Lewis has provided conclusive proof of the Christian message in his Narnia children’s books.

In the letter, sent to a child fan in 1961, Lewis writes: “The whole Narnian story is about Christ.” It has been found by Walter Hooper, literary adviser to the Lewis estate.

It has emerged ahead of this week’s release of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The film, starring Tilda Swinton and Jim Broadbent, cost £75m to make and has been at the centre of a tug of war between Christians and secularists.

Brian Sibley, author of Shadowlands, the book which describes Lewis’s marriage to Joy Gresham, said: “This is the most specific explanation of Narnia I have heard.”

The new film depicts one of the seven novels in Lewis’s series, which tell the story of four children journeying through a wardrobe into Narnia, a world of talking animals that is plunged into endless winter by a witch. The children and animals rally to Aslan, a noble lion. Story


Longing for Narnia: Why We Yearn for the Good End
by Marc T. Newman, Ph.D.

The house is old and full of mystery. Wooden stairways rise, beckoning exploration. Against a wall in an abandoned room stands a curiously carved wardrobe. The door cracks open and from the interior issues a blinding white light. And somewhere deep inside you something stirs.

Narnia is calling. And you are desperate to answer. Why, in a culture that prizes scientific materialism, are grown men and women discovering a catch in their throats and tears of longing welling up in their eyes as they watch the trailer for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe? The answer to that question may well explain why the first film installment of The Chronicles of Narnia could be one of the most powerful spiritual conversation starters ever to hit the screen.

It lies in a desperate longing for wonder, rescue, and the triumph of good over evil that many are discovering today through a remythologizing of the Gospel found in Narnia. The rest