There is Another World
In the late
spring of 1975, I was in my mid-twenties. I was visiting some family members in
northern Arizona. Two second cousins, Wendy and Jill Varnum, whom I had met for
the first time and who were a bit younger than I, introduced me to the Narnia
Tales by CS Lewis, books I had never encountered and which they had at their
house. After a successful year of law school, I was about to attend a trial
year of seminary at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. I was looking for a
deeper relationship with God. But would it affect my career? Would I change
careers, or go back to law school in a year? Who knew?
I did know I
was seeking God, but, more importantly, I knew that God was seeking me. (I had
recently heard at law school an excellent sermon by a young pastor, Rev. Harry
Smith, about how the God of the Bible is always coming after us and seeking
us.)At that time in my pilgrimage, God
used CS Lewis’s Tales of Narnia, especially two of them—the Lion, the Witch,
a…
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