{"id":143640,"date":"2026-03-02T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143640"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:04:08","slug":"church-times-our-lent-series-continues-with-a-reflection-from-simon-horobin-on-c-s-lewiss-prince-caspian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143640","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Our Lent series continues with a reflection from Simon Horobin on C. S. Lewis\u2019s\u00a0Prince Caspian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/c-s-lewis\">Lewis<\/a>\u00a0is asserting the importance of stories for communicating truths, and the danger of dismissing them as feigned nonsense. The 1300 years that have passed since the reign of the Pevensie children means that they have once again taken on a mythical status among the inhabitants of Old Narnia. The beasts have no evidence of their existence, nor that of Aslan, but nevertheless they have faithfully passed on the stories through the generations and held fast to the truths they communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trufflehunter\u2019s assertion of his faith is a kind of creed, which summarises the key tenets of his faith: \u201cI believe in the High King Peter and the rest that reigned at Cair Paravel, as firmly as I believe in Aslan himself.\u201d We might compare this statement of belief with the Apostles\u2019 Creed and its opening statement: \u201cI believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.\u201d The tendency for such stories to be dismissed as merely myths or fairy stories, recounting fabulous adventures of fantastical beasts like human beings, is an important reminder of the value of the stories of the Bible for continuing to transmit the Christian faith to new generations in a society where such tales are frequently dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IT\u2019S not just the stories that are important in passing on the Christian faith: it is also the people. The passage we have considered provides an effective contrast between the transitoriness of humans, and the edifices that they build, and the steadfastness of the badgers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where human rulers come and go, badgers remain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/27-february\/faith\/faith-features\/lent-series-faith-in-the-unbelievable\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Here, Lewis is asserting the importance of stories for communicating truths, and the danger of dismissing them as feigned nonsense.&quot; <br><br>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lent<\/a> series continues with a reflection on C. S. Lewis\u2019s Prince Caspian<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSLewis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSLewis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cv1iJSInqG\">https:\/\/t.co\/cv1iJSInqG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2028038846223372570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here,\u00a0Lewis\u00a0is asserting the importance of stories for communicating truths, and the danger of dismissing them as feigned nonsense. The 1300 years that have passed since the reign of the Pevensie children means that they have once again taken on a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143640\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,92,101,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-children","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143643,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143640\/revisions\/143643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}