Studying Narnia in class at Church!

There are more! I said I was a huge fan of Christian fantasy... and that's because it actually IS a genre! It's pretty small, but it's quickly growing! Some of my favorites are The Archives of Anthropos series by John White, The Legend of the Guardian-King series by Karen Hancock, The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker, The Dragon Keeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul, The Door Within Trilogy by Wayne Thomas Batson, Dragons in our Midst and Oracles of Fire by Byran Davis, The Auralia Thread series by Jeffery Overstreet, Heartless by Anne Elizabeth Stengl, and the Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead. I'm still discovering more too! I've been thinking about starting my own Christian fantasy book club and website because I want other people to talk about these great novels and all of their beautiful Christian themes!

Glad I could share. It would be great if you remembered the series you thought was like C.S. Lewis because I'm always on the lookout for more. Hope you find a new book that you love!

Oh wow! I never knew that! I think, if I remember it correctly, I came across this new series of fiction/fantasy novel that is kinda like C.S. Lewis. I just forgot the title. I would love to read more Christian fantasy or fiction novels. I probably just need to look out on these titles. :) Thanks for the info ally! :) I shall check some of those titles that you've shared with me.

It's loads of fun! I hope your child enjoys Narnia just as much as I did!

Oh he does. We are reading The Magician's Nephew right now..

Magician's Nephew is one of my favorites! Well... I love them all but I would say my three main favorites are Magician's Nephew, Horse and His Boy, and The Last Battle. All great books! I'm glad he's enjoying them!

Oh I will! You really should read the books! The movies are great, but I always think that the books are better than the movies. With the books you can really imagine everything instead of letting someone hand all the images to you! Right now we've only done part of Magician's Nephew and we talked about creation and transformation! It was incredible and I can't wait for next week!

and how did they respond?

I've read the books before and I was the one who pushed for the Narnia study in Sunday School. I'm a huge Narnia fan and I wanted to talk about it with all my classmates. (And I wanted an excuse to wear my renaissance dress to church!)

To me wearing the dress or to studying Narnia? We're all really excited about studying Narnia and we've only had one Sunday discussion so far but it was a really good one and I'm looking forward to the next one. Wearing the dress to church was actually a really big hit. I had heaps of fun and I got to tell everyone else at church about our class, plus I got lots of compliments. Next week more of my classmates are dressing up and there will be a lion plushy, a horse plushy (Horse and His Boy!), and a unicorn plushy with us. Yeah... we're having loads of fun with this.

So far we've discussed direct Biblical parallels... like how Magician's Nephew is about Creation and the Fall. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe addresses Christ's sacrifice, Redemption, salvation, and the resurrection. The Horse and His Boy bears strong similarities to the story of Ester. Prince Caspian is like the story of Josiah. The Last Battle is the end times and judgement... etc. Right now we're focusing on Magician's Nephew and it's Creation themes, plus the idea of transformation in Christians as portrayed in the transformation of the animals and of the poor cabby to the king!

That's awesome! I would love to be able to claim that I live in Narnia. I'm in Narnia in my head all the time anyway.