Issue Five: Imagination (Spring 2019)
The Imagination and Its Role in Faith
Carla Alvarez on the Imagination Opening Minds
We Have Sinned and Grown Old: A Reflection on the Imagination and Motherhood
Nicole Howe on the Innocence of Youthful Wonder
Messiah
Adam Brackin on a Voyage to Paradise
Awe
Annie Nardone on Regaining a Sense of Wonder
The Adventures of Asher Svenson: Story Two: A Feast of Fishes
Lucas W. Holt on What Happened at the Seashore
Reviving a Sacred Imagination
Annie Crawford on Reason and the Imagination as Necessary for Discipleship
Light in the Darkness
Korine Martinez on Striving against Evil
Imagining Conversion
Josiah Peterson on Why Conversion Stories Change Lives
God, the Playwright
Donald Catchings on the Gospel as an Imaginative Masterpiece
The Armor of the Dragon: Chapter One: What Grew in the Garden
Daniel Asperheim on the Beginning of a Magical Adventure
Re-Enchanting the World: A Tale of Two Paradigms
Josh Herring on Overcoming Our Modern Disenchantment
Celestial Rodeo
Daniel Ray on the Importance of Humility
The Imaginative Power of Sub-Creation
Zak Schmoll on Why We Love Tolkien’s Stories
Issue Four: Celebrating Planet Narnia: Ten Years in Orbit (Advent 2018)
For Your Contemplation: What You’ll See When You Read This Issue
An Introduction by Ryan Grube
Seven Questions: AUJ with Michael Ward
An Interview
Where Paradoxes Play: Michael Ward on Christian Orthodoxy
An Essay by Jahdiel Perez
Why We Love to Visit Narnia
An Essay by Louis Markos
An Unexpected Journey: Imaginative Apologetics and the Ward Moment – A Personal Reflection
An Essay by John Mark Reynolds
A Seven-Days’ Journey through the Heavens
A Poem by Holly Ordway
Planet Narnia as Creative Inspiration
An Essay by Malcolm Guite
The Daily Planet
A Poem by Malcolm Guite
The Circle Dance
A Poem by Malcolm Guite
C. S. Lewis: A Life
A Poem by Donald T. Williams
(Re)Considering the Planet Narnia Thesis
An Essay by Brenton Dickieson
A Defense of Planet Narnia
An Essay by Josiah Peterson
Return to Planet Narnia
An Essay by Michael Ward
Table Narnia: Fugue to Evangelical Adventure
An Essay by Kyoko Yuasa
The Cure Has Begun
An Essay by Annie Crawford
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Rehabilitation of Practical Reason
An Essay by Jason Monroe
Gravitational Pull
A Reflection by Marshall Arthur Liszt
Quarantine
A Short Story by Adam Brackin
Issue Three: Courage, Strength, and Hope (Fall 2018)
A Reason for Our Hope: The Role of Fairy Stories in Christian Apologetics
Nicole Howe on Why Fairy Stories Matter
The Adventures of Asher Svenson: Story One: The Secret Wood
Lucas W. Holt on the Mystery of the Forest
Tales of Courage and Hope: Black Panther in Middle Earth and Narnia
Seth Myers on the Connections from Oxford to Hollywood
Hope, Life, and the Fountain of Trevi
Carla Alvarez on the Power of Water
The Lord of the Rings and Consolation Concerning Death
Jason Monroe on the Central Theme of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Masterpiece
The Heroism of the Ordinary in The Lord of the Rings
Zak Schmoll on the Character of Samwise Gamgee
Lava: A Story of Love and Hope
Carla Alvarez on the Deeper Themes within the Pixar Short
The Power in Pain
Annie Nardone on the First-Hand Experience of Pain
Courage in the Cosmos
Daniel Ray on the Boldness of Our Story
The Homeric Versus the Christian Ideal of Man
Josiah Peterson on Contrasting the Nature of Humanity
Relict
Karise Gililland on the Transition from Bewildered Suffering to Active Hope
The Making of a Hero
Carla Alvarez on the Changing Modern Perspective of Heroism
Tales of Courage and Hope: Hamilton in Middle Earth and Narnia: Part One & Part Two
Seth Myers on the Connections from Oxford to Broadway
Issue Two: The Power of Story (Summer 2018)
Literary Apologetics: A Spell for the Refreshment of Spirit
Annie Crawford on Why Stories Matter
Hume in Elfland
Rebekah Valerius on an Imagined Meeting between Hume and Chesterton
For What Purpose
Charlotte Thomason on Why C.S. Lewis Wrote about Narnia
Augustine’s The Confessions: The Power of Spiritual Autobiography
Nicole Howe on the Importance of First Person Testimonies
Dry Bones
Korine Martinez on Why We Must Never Lose Hope
Finding Faith in Fairy Tales: Answers for Modern Skeptics from C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair
Annie Crawford on Why Faith Is a Reasonable Answer to Uncertainty
Devouring Reason – The Myth of Arachne Retold
Rebekah Valerius on the Desire for Meaning
God the Great Iconoclast: C.S. Lewis’s Personal Theodicy
Edward Stengel on Addressing the Problem of Pain
Lewis in La La Land
Seth Myers on the Search for Significance
Sneaking Past Watchful Dragons: Imaginative Apologetics and the Games We Play
Karise Gililland on How Games are a Delayed Apologetic
Issue One: The Abolition of Man (Spring 2018)
Dear Reader
Zak Schmoll on the Purpose of This Project
Lewis Among the Ancients … and Moderns
Seth Myers on Lewis’ Trip through Literary History
The Abolition of Students
Rebekah Valerius on the Consequences of Naturalism on Campus
“Will These Hands Ne’er be Clean?”: C.S. Lewis and the Apologetic Response to the Themes of Macbeth
Edward Stengel on the Reality of Human Evil
Creation
Annie Nardone on the Majesty of the Cosmos
The Death of Freedom
Hannah Zarr on the Insufficiency of Nietzsche’s Innovation
Dragons in Our ‘Darkest Hours’: Slaying All Day the Lewis Way
Karise Gililland on Combating the Dragon of Sexual Exploitation
Searching the Stars
Annie Crawford on the Modern Difference between Quality and Quantity
The Separation of Narnia and Tao
Zak Schmoll on the Destruction of Objective Truth in The Last Battle
Abolition of Man as Sci-Fi: C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy
Seth Myers on the Integration of the Abolition of Man into Lewis’ Fiction
From The Green Book to The River: Lewis, Relativism, and Constructivism in Education
Carla Alvarez on the Shortcomings of Constructivism