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A Santa Claus Non-Believer Discovers Tolkien’s Father Christmas Letters

I’ve just discovered Tolkien’s Letters From Father Christmas. I found them charming–but they also got me thinking about truth, tradition, and stories. · Travis Perry

Why Can a Book’s Movie Be So Bad? When an Adaptation Goes Astray

Why do adaptations of books to movies and other media sometimes fail? It isn’t always because they didn’t follow the book closely enough. · Heather M. Elliott

Why Does ‘I Can Only Imagine’ Back Away from Redemption?

Does the movie I Can Only Imagine cut redemption short by not fully portraying evil? Do other Christian stories also cheat redemption in the same way? · Travis Perry

#FantasyFunMonth: Book Better Than Movie

What fantasy books were better than their film versions? Join the conversation about #FantasyFunMonth. · E. Stephen Burnett

More Middle-earth, and Even More Narnia?

“The Hobbit” part 2 gets another trailer, and the Narnia film series gets a new producer. · E. Stephen Burnett

Human Nature 2: The Greatest Battle Lies Within

Stories often like to make the real enemy a surprise. But they’re usually external, missing the worst enemy of all: our own sinful flesh. · E. Stephen Burnett

It’s Dawn

OK, it’s actually late afternoon here, but it is time for me to write my review of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, so I used a little chronometric license 😉 . I went to see the latest version—I say […] · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Defeating Man-Centered Monsters With Greater Stories

For the Christian, the choice seems easy between God-rejecting and God-centered stories. But if I had to choose between stories that ignore God and those that (despite frequent hints of God-centeredness) include Him wrongly, I must admit I would prefer the God-ignoring ones. · E. Stephen Burnett

Fighting Man-Centered Monsters In Christian Fantasy

Stories like “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” that make a Christ-figure a means to fulfilling one’s destiny are little better than atheism. · E. Stephen Burnett

‘Dawn Treader’ Film May Hit Story Sandbars, Part 3

Until a few hours ago today, an online interview was available with Mark Johnson, a lookalike of Justin Hammer (from Iron Man 2) and also producer of the Narnia films. Aslan’sCountry.com has since removed the interview text. (But guess who […] · E. Stephen Burnett

‘Dawn Treader’ Film May Hit Story Sandbars, Part 2

This time I’ll begin with positive news: this photo from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader film. Yes, for those familiar with the book, it’s a classic image: Eustace, now finally sobered, turned into a dragon because of his existing […] · E. Stephen Burnett

‘Dawn Treader’ Film May Hit Story Sandbars, Part 1

First Disney dropped distributing the Chronicles of Narnia film franchise. Then Fox picked it up. Then it seemed that producer Walden Media’s new director, Michael Apted, might bring a better story adaptation. But a leaked script emerged that included some […] · E. Stephen Burnett

‘The Book C.S. Lewis Didn’t Write’?

Here is the quote, which NarniaWeb posted in news on Wednesday . “We were able to steal, really, from the book C.S. Lewis didn’t write, which is the one that would have gone between The Dawn Treader and The Silver […] · E. Stephen Burnett