{"id":3906,"date":"2010-07-30T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2010-07-30T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T02:05:48","slug":"narnia-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100730-3906.htm","title":{"rendered":"Narnia Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\/2010\/06\/chronicles-of-narnia-reading-challenge.html\"><img alt=\"Chronicles of Narnia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluecastlephoto.com\/misc\/chronicles-of-narnia.gif\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the last day of July, which means Carrie&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\/2010\/06\/chronicles-of-narnia-reading-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge<\/a> is coming to a close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"blog\/2009\/20090718-83.htm\">Last year<\/a>, I read and made notes on <i>The Magician&#8217;s Nephew<\/i>.  This year, I decided to continue on with the next in the series (chronologically), <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I intended to explore the Biblical\/moral principles found within <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i> as I had with <i>The Magician&#8217;s Nephew<\/i>.  Alas, I was swamped with dozens of other books, one of which I was writing <a href=\"blog\/category\/books\/book-notes\">notes<\/a> on.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t end up having time to think or write an in-depth analysis, but I still did end up getting a chance to take a look at some of the allusions found in <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i> thanks to a nifty little read-along called <a href=\"books\/bell_j_s-insidelww.htm\"><i>Inside &#8220;The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe&#8221;<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the book I was writing notes on (John Stott&#8217;s <i>The Cross of Christ<\/i> just happened to remind me of a couple of scenes in <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>, so I included those scenes as part of my notes (<a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100706-3419.htm\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100707-3427.htm\">2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And finally, I did take the time to sit down and write a post about one of the things that stuck out to me (for the first time) this time around: the question of <a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100728-3883.htm\">how to evaluate the trustworthiness<\/a> of a person or piece of information.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, these are the posts I&#8217;ve written about Narnia over the last month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"books\/bell_j_s-insidelww.htm\">Book Review of <i>Inside &#8220;The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Unsatisfactory Satisfaction: on the theology of the cross as seen in <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100706-3419.htm\">Part 1: The Cross Satisfied the Devil&#8217;s Demands?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100707-3427.htm\">Part 2: The Cross Satisfied the Law?<\/a><br \/>\n<i>Just as a note: if you get frustrated with the conclusions I&#8217;ve drawn in either of these parts, you may be interested in reading <a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100708-3430.htm\">Part 3<\/a> (which does not reference the Chronicles of Narnia)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"blog\/2010\/20100728-3883.htm\">On Evaluating Trustworthiness (In Narnia)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Please take a look and leave some comments (even on the older posts)&#8211;I absolutely love it when people engage my ideas.  I might even respond in the comments and go back and forth with you if you&#8217;d like (even though I haven&#8217;t yet responded to Carrie&#8217;s comment on that last post&#8211;consider that a primer for future discussion :-P).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for dropping by and don&#8217;t forget to take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\/2010\/07\/chronicles-of-narnia-reading-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie&#8217;s conclusion page<\/a> for links to other people&#8217;s comments on the Chronicles of Narnia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the last day of July, which means Carrie&#8217;s Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge is coming to a close. Last year, I read and made notes on The Magician&#8217;s Nephew. This year, I decided to continue on with the next in the series (chronologically), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I intended to &#8230; <a title=\"Narnia Wrap-Up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100730-3906.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Narnia Wrap-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[251],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}