Weekly Christian Opinion Roundup

The Christian Post (US), like its secular counterparts, is running an lengthy story based on the Reuters report of UK church-based efforts to promote the Narnia movie. Unlike many of its secular counterparts, however, the Post gets most of its facts right, and includes more detail about the organizations involved in the effort.

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The Catholic News Service is offering some commentary from Lewis biographer and documentarian John Ryan Duncan, who offers a balanced assessment of Lewis' objectives with Narnia—and its impact.

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Beliefnet has posted Q&A "about the moral messages of Narnia, its appropriateness for kids, and using it to spark discussions." The Kopps' intentions are nice, but they dodge (or don't even see) the kinds of really tough questions about paganism that Peter Chattaway highlighted recently (check a little further down in the blog for a link to Chattway's column).

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Terry Mattingly talks to Paul McCusker of Focus on the Family Radio Theatre and Douglas Gresham about the upcoming film. "Lewis has woven the Christian symbolism so tightly into the story that you can't cut it out without changing the story itself. The people who love this book are simply not going to let that happen," says McCusker.