Listen "How to Live Like a Narnian"
Episode Synopsis
Listen to Brian Brown's talk from the 2024 Square Halo "Return to Narnia" conference.
Maybe you've absorbed the fake C.S. Lewis quote that you ARE a soul and you HAVE a body. Or maybe you grew up in an environment that only valued time if it was spent getting people into the elevator going up.
If so, you probably struggle to live in the world as you ought, because you have no theological or mental category for most things between idolatry and indifference. So you can’t find a place for many of the things you love most in the kingdom of God.
We have to fix our relationship with material reality. In the Chronicles, Lewis gives us a fictional world that very clearly has meaning and magic woven into every layer of it. The reason that appeals to us is that it is a reflection of our world as we’re supposed to see it, even if we’ve forgotten.
In this talk, Brian offers a threefold way of relating to material reality--and our vocations in it--that explains why you love the things you do, and what to do with them.
Maybe you've absorbed the fake C.S. Lewis quote that you ARE a soul and you HAVE a body. Or maybe you grew up in an environment that only valued time if it was spent getting people into the elevator going up.
If so, you probably struggle to live in the world as you ought, because you have no theological or mental category for most things between idolatry and indifference. So you can’t find a place for many of the things you love most in the kingdom of God.
We have to fix our relationship with material reality. In the Chronicles, Lewis gives us a fictional world that very clearly has meaning and magic woven into every layer of it. The reason that appeals to us is that it is a reflection of our world as we’re supposed to see it, even if we’ve forgotten.
In this talk, Brian offers a threefold way of relating to material reality--and our vocations in it--that explains why you love the things you do, and what to do with them.
More episodes of the podcast Imagination Redeemed
St. Nicholas and the Art of Joy
02/12/2025
Winter (and Season 5) Preview!
29/11/2025
Hope That Holds Your Grief
17/11/2025
Feasting in Troubled Times
05/11/2025
On Halloween, Death, and “Traditions of Men”
23/10/2025
The Lost Tools of Singing - Part 2
15/10/2025
The Lost Tools of Singing
08/10/2025
John Williams and Passing Down the Faith
22/09/2025
How the Anselm Society Got Started
22/09/2025
Josh Tiessen: Wisdom in Creation
15/09/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.