Tag Archives: C. S. Lewis

GOP Christians Summon Witch/Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: January 26, 2016

A conservative Christian blogger argues that Christians supporting Trump are like Nikabrik in “Prince Caspian” wanting to conjure up the White Witch to save Narnia.

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British and American Fantasy Contrasted

By Robin Bates | Published: January 12, 2016

An “Atlantic” article argues that British fantasy is richer than American fantasy. I agree that they are different and that there are interesting reasons for those differences–but that American fantasy is vibrant as well.

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Aslan and Cecil the Lion’s Death

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2015

The death of Cecil the Lion conjures up images of Aslan in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and of the lion in Ernest Hemingway’s “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”

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God Dreams Us, Not Vice Versa

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2014

C. S. Lewis has a poem that addresses our frustrations that God isn’t listening to our prayers.

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This Is the Way the World Ends

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2014

Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” reflects upon how the world will end. Recent news of melting Antarctic glaciers says we can expect fire and ice to both play a role.

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Real Religion Is Like Literature

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2014

If the “Chronicles of Narnia” are read narrowly as Christian propaganda, then they suffer and so does Christianity.

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For Core Standards, More Lit, Not Less

By Robin Bates | Published: January 3, 2013

The Common Core State Standards deemphasize literature. In fact, we need more literature taught.

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Fantasy, Because Reality Is Unsatisfactory

By Robin Bates | Published: October 1, 2012

Fantasy is nothing in and of itself but takes its character in opposition to an unsatisfactory reality.

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A John Bunyan Defense of Harry Potter

By Robin Bates | Published: July 24, 2011

Given how for years we’ve been witnessing certain evangelical Christians criticizing, banning and occasionally burning the Harry Potter books, what are we to make of their inability to appreciate Harry’s Christ-like sacrifice as the end of “The Deathly Hallows”?

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