Pointing to Christ

I remember the first time I watched Disney and Walden Media’s adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian , released nine years ago in May of 2008. In days leading up to its release, we read the book as a family and enjoyed the tale of the Pevensie children’s second trip to Narnia. The movie was decent, even though it took many (unfortunate) liberties in adapting the plot of the book. But my favorite part of the experience took place during the final scene. Of course, the filmmakers had added a romance between Susan and Prince Caspian, and in the final scene, the inevitable occurred: they kissed. At this, my brother shouted for all the theater to hear, “That wasn’t in the book!” And he was right. In fact, Susan and Caspian don’t even meet until several days before the children leave Narnia again! Such a subplot would not have fit in the book at all. Recently, my wife and I reread Prince Caspian together, and I was struck by something that Lewis writes in one of the last pages of

      Over the past three decades, a growing number of professing Christians have begun to support same-sex relationships.[1] According to a survey done by the Pew Research Center, the percentage of White evangelical Protestants who affirm same-sex marriage has increased from 13 percent to 27 percent over the past fifteen years.[2] Overall, 64 percent of White mainline Protestants, 58 percent of Roman Catholics, 39 percent of Black Protestants, and 27 percent of White evangelical Protestants support same-sex marriage.[3] Often, these Christians who adopt an affirming attitude toward same-sex relationships are hailed by many as loving and compassionate. They argue that Jesus’ command to love your neighbor requires believers to affirm same-sex relationships as morally acceptable. Furthermore, they claim that in order to love those in the LGBT community, believers must affirm their sexual orientations and their same-sex relationships. Thus, Matthew Vines writes that affirming those in the