Will Vaus

Most parents, at some time or another, have had the experience of thinking they have lost their child. It happened to us when our children were small. We were in the Disney Store at the mall. As we got ready to leave the store, we suddenly realized our middle son, Jon, was not with us. He was probably 5 years old or younger at the time. We looked all around the store. He was nowhere to be found. Then we stepped outside the store and looked in every direction. Finally, we saw him, one store down, standing with a security guard. What relief! Well, I think almost every parent can identify. And the story we are going to read today from the Gospel of Luke is a story about two parents losing their son and finding him again. But the story is also about so much more. Listen for God’s word to you from Luke 2:41-52… 41  Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover.   42  And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival.   43 

On the second full day of our C. S. Lewis Tour we drove from Belfast north around the Antrim Coast. We saw the former fishing village of Larne where Jack spent his last holiday with his mother before her death in 1908. As we made our way around the coast, we paid a visit to the Carrick-a-rede Rope Bridge. The bridge was first erected by salmon fishermen in 1755. The site is now operated by the National Trust. Given how many times Jack Lewis visited the Antrim Coast, especially in his youth, this is probably a site with which he would have been familiar.  Today you can take a walk across the rope bridge just like the fishermen of old. The next stop along the Antrim Coast is at the Giant's Causeway, a World Heritage site. In the photo above my son Josh is standing on the giant's boot. Lewis would have been familiar from childhood days with the mythical tale associated with the Giant's Causeway. His one mention of the place is in a letter to his

Only 15 more days until Prince Caspian opens in theaters in the United States! My family can't wait. What about you?

The Prince Caspian Trailer is now available to view online. Click here: http://www.narniaweb.com/news.asp?id=1355&dl=14478175 . To read about some atheists who were outraged by this trailer appearing before a showing of The Golden Compass, click here: http://comicsnexus.insidepulse.com/articles/72400/2007/12/08/atheists-outraged-by-film-trailer.html . With all the hullabaloo about Philip Pullman's Golden Compass , Christians practically boycotting the film, and now atheists complaining about the Narnia trailer showing prior to the film, it makes me wonder why more parents don't show the same sense displayed by C. S. Lewis's parents. Albert and Flora Lewis had many books in their home and their sons were allowed to read anything they wanted. In the case of those two boys, such freedom to read and be exposed to different ideas doesn't seem to have harmed them.

Enjoy this video blog of Ben Barnes, the new Prince Caspian from the forthcoming movie . . .

Andrew Adamson has launched a video blog about the production of the second Chronicles of Narnia movie. Check it out!

The year was 1972. I was nine years old, in the fourth grade, public school, in Southern California. My teacher, Mrs Ewing, opened a book and began to read aloud to the class . . . "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy." By the end of the first chapter, and she read a chapter each day, I was enchanted. My enchantment, at first, was with the very idea of winter as expressed by C. S. Lewis in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe . Eventually the enchantment took over other departments of the mind and soul. My parents eventually bought me the boxed set of The Chronicles of Narnia . I was a slow reader, but gradually I devoured each book. Prince Caspian was perhaps my favorite at that time-partly because of the battle scene where a Telmarine head gets walloped off. I don't recall just when some of the Christian overtones in The Chronicles became clear to me. I'm sure that at first I just loved the books because they were wonderfu