Category: Celebrating Planet Narnia
An Unexpected Journey: Imaginative Apologetics and the Ward Moment – A Personal Reflection
In an issue honoring a remarkable scholar, I have been asked to do two things: honor Michael Ward...
Gravitational Pull
Something pulled you, compelled you, made you pick this up instead of something else. You were...
C. S. Lewis: A Life
“You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C. S. Lewis to Walter...
Quarantine
The traveler’s wife had never known true fear and loneliness until her husband went down to the...
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Rehabilitation of Practical Reason
“We must extend the word Reason to include what our ancestors called Practical Reason and confess...
The Cure Has Begun
Salvation as Illuminated by the Planetary Imagery in The Chronicles of Narnia Like most fairy...
Return to Planet Narnia
How well her name an Army doth present In whom the Lord of Hosts did pitch his tent. Ana-...
A Defense of Planet Narnia
You may be surprised, as I was, to learn that Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia thesis is...
Table Narnia: Fugue to Evangelical Adventure
The Stone Table where Aslan dies in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is generally...
The Daily Planet
All day the noise of battle rolls, The skirmishes and wars, What peace or treaty can there be...
The Circle Dance
A sun-warmed sapling, opening each leaf, My soul unfolded in your quickening ray. “The inner...
A Seven-Days’ Journey through the Heavens
We muddle through this world tempest-tossed, Beleaguered by distractions here below, And fearing...
Planet Narnia as Creative Inspiration
Like so many other readers of Ward’s magnum opus, I have found in Planet Narnia a great work of...
Why We Love to Visit Narnia
A full decade has now passed since Michael Ward published his groundbreaking Planet Narnia. While...
Where Paradoxes Play: Michael Ward on Christian Orthodoxy
It may be tempting to forget, especially when duly honoring and appraising the impact Planet...
Seven Questions: AUJ with Michael Ward
Since Planet Narnia was first published, you have spent a full decade crossing the globe to...
For Your Contemplation: What You’ll See When You Read This Issue
Before 2008, many of us had read C.S. Lewis’s works, including his fiction, his apologetics, his...
