The Lioness, the Warlock, and the Gym-Locker

A meditation for Good Friday.

A little boy was playing with his crayons. 

"What are you drawing a picture of?"

"God."

"But surely, no-one knows what God looks like."

"They will once I've finished my picture."

1: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is an allegory...

2: In 1948 C.S Lewis wrote an essay about women's ordination, or as he very provocatively put it, priestesses in the church .

3: There has been a good deal of fuss about the rumour — which is still only a rumour at time of writing — that Meryl Streep has been cast as the voice of Aslan in the forthcoming Netflicks adaptation of the Narnia saga. 

4: If your school still had religious assemblies, you probably puzzled your way through Cardinal Newman’s Dream of Gerontius...

5: About a decade ago, we had a serious conversation about whether or not the Silver Surfer has a willy.