Lewis's friend J.R.R. Tolkien did not like the finished work. He disapproved of the mixture of mythological creatures inhabiting Narnia and did not care much for the quality of the writing. Lewis's publisher had doubts about whether it would sell, and thought there was more chance if the book were part of a series. Lewis soon obliged, and wrote one Narnia book a year until the seventh brought the series to a definite end. This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!" thought Lucy, going still further in and pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her. Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet. "I wonder is that more mothballs?" she thought, stooping down to feel it with her hand. But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. "This is very queer," she said, and went a step or two further.

While notions of the feminine sacred re-emerged in the 1970s, she notes that today’s teenagers are “deliberately targeted” by shows such as the American TV series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (the reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch), and reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Harry Potter series, and the female characters in Terry Pratchett’s novels present individuals who are able to overcome their problems through magic. This is the only surviving footage of C.S. Lewis's broadcast talks. The New Men is the last episode in Beyond Personality, the third series. It was broadcast on BBC radio on 21st March 1944. Lewis believed that humans were absolutely separate from animals, but he considered animals conscious - or some animals to be more conscious than others. It would be unhelpful to group apes with earthworms: "Clearly in some ways the ape and man are much more like each other than either is like the worm". There was a difference in complexity from 'lower' to 'higher' animals.

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In 1926 he submitted Dymer, a long mythological poem, for publication. It is a tale with a moral about fantasy and self-deception: like Lewis's other books, it was written from experience. It was favourably reviewed and may have met with more success if the fashion at the time had not been for free, non-rhyming poetry. I recently did an in person reading on a young woman of about age 19 who was clearly struggling with something. She had come in with a friend but was a bit hesitant, withdrawn. I finally looked at her square in the face and said, “It is ok to have Pagan and Wiccan beliefs and still believe in God.” Until that moment, not a word had been said about her beliefs or God or any of that. But, as soon as I said those few words, her eyes welled up with tears and the water works began. I do not where or whom the message came from, but I knew she had to hear it. That was what Lewis did when he gave the radio talks that were later published in book form as Mere Christianity. He sent part of the text to clergymen of the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, Methodist and Presbyterian denominations to make sure his representation of 'mere Christianity' was one that they could all agree on. Religion Dispatches is your independent, non-profit, award-winning source for the best writing on critical and timely issues at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture. The Christian defender ... is very apt to say that we are entitled to do anything we please to animals because they 'have no souls'. But what does this mean? If it means that animals have no consciousness, then how is this known? They certainly behave as if they had, or at least the higher animals do. I myself am inclined to think that far fewer animals than is supposed have what we should recognize as consciousness. But that is only an opinion. Unless we know on other grounds that vivisection is right we must not take the moral risk of tormenting them on a mere opinion.

My own daughter and son often asked me questions about God and various religious beliefs as they were growing up. I would answer them honestly and to the best of my ability but I did not make much of an effort to take them to church where they could truly learn. I did not want to force that upon them. But we did talk about God and Christian beliefs often. I tried to teach my children that there literally is no right or wrong way to worship. For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. Ritual practice: There is no greater ritual than preparing a meal with the fruits of the harvest and giving thanks for all our blessings. That is communing with nature and the divine in the most fundamentally human way! Joy had been corresponding with Lewis for two years before her visit. She was a sharp, outspoken and witty woman, just the sort to appeal to Lewis. When, on her return to America, she found her husband committing adultery and their marriage beyond repair, she moved to England with her sons.She also worries they could get into “something that’s going to frighten you very badly and do you a lot of damage, like Ouija boards and Charlie-Charlie, and these other types of ‘games’ where you lose control and all sorts of things can happen in your mind that you’re not prepared for.”