January 2, 2006

The Lion that Roars for Peace

By Kate Wright
Thankfully, the world has a magnificent image to help a new generation of young people sort through the confusion and conflict surrounding Steven Spielberg's movie Munich.  In The Chronicles of Narnia,  (Anschutz Film Group, Walt Disney Company, Walden Media) a splendid and virtuous lion named Aslan inspires his down—trodden people to rise up and destroy the evil forces that have devastated all that is loving and beautiful about Narnia and curses them to eternal winter.  It is a story of a civilization in conflict, a gentle people that yearn for peace, subjugated by the violent forces of evil that render their lives barren of hope.  This is a story about a lion that roars for peace.  The good people of Narnia accept the call, and to achieve a lasting and meaningful peace, wage a reluctant war to safeguard their humanity and restore Narnia to its path of righteousness, where valor, courage, wisdom, and generosity prevail. Now, picture a cookie...(Read Full Article)