"The Lion, The Mouse, and the Dawn Treader" by Carl McColman
Carl McColman, The Lion, the Mouse and the Dawn Treader: Spiritual Lessons from C.S. Lewis's Narnia. Paraclete Press, 2011. 144 pages. Provided for review. #SpeakEasyNarnia Special thanks for providing this in electronic format; so much easier that way. Sometimes the title, and subtitle, just says it all. You don't even need to read the back of this book to know what it is about. It is a book outlining some of the spiritual lessons we can learn form Narnia and, more specifically, from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . After all, C.S. Lewis himself wrote that The Voyage was about the spiritual life and journey of the Christian (though, it is not an allegory, a fact both Lewis and McColman are very clear about). With this beginning, McColman explores just what lessons we can learn from this book, including such things as: the choice to walk with God is not always our own, mysticism does not make saints, everyone is at risk o...