Looking Elsewhere: November 11, 2005

Wednesday’s specials:

Good news! I’ve just snared a deal for a new monthly film column. Can’t tell you where yet, but I’ll give you the details soon.

THE NEW ISSUE OF IMAGE IS READY FOR YOU
Click here to peruse the contents of the new issue. (New Scott Cairns poetry! Woo hoo!) The latest Image update sums it up like this:

Image issue #47 features Texas portraitist John Cobb’s chapel, a portable structure composed of panel paintings of his friends and neighbors. Also: John Terpstra’s tender, spare memoir of his wife’s three brothers and their battle with muscular dystrophy, an interview with B.H. Fairchild, poetry by Scott Cairns, and Sandra Scofield on forgiveness, anger, and learning to crochet in prison. There’s also a Halloween story in which essayist David Griffith dresses up as James T. Kirk and finds himself on a party-hopping ethical odyssey, and a Christmas story in which a normally dignified Jewish widower and physician endures his annual gig as the voice of Santa on his local radio station. We promise it’s not a story about discovering The True Meaning of Christmas.

ARE YOU AN EDMUND? OR A LUCY?
CT offers part 2 of the interview with Douglas Gresham about Narnia. Gresham says:

You have to bear in mind that Hinduism has a dying god who dies for his people, then comes back. Norse mythology has the dying god. Greek mythology has the dying god. This myth is not new and it’s not unique to Christianity. Yes, Christians who watch the movie or read the book will look for Christian symbolism. But I think that’s the wrong way to approach it. I think it’s far better to read the book or see the movie and try to find out where you fit into Narnia. Analyze yourself and how you would react under these circumstances. Who are you? Are you an Edmund? Are you a Peter? Or a Lucy or a Susan or a Tumnus? Where do you fit?

Click here if you missed Part 1.