The Faber Sessions: Narnia

TFS 10: Narnia, Here and There Intro

September 4, 2023 • Rick Ganz

Series 1 of The Faber Sessions in April-May 2020 was an exploration of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, written by him in the decade after World War II, the seven novels published, one per year, from 1950 to 1956. In that Spring of 2020, we read all seven novels - a novel per week - as the pandemic (impacting us in March 2020) had week by week locked us into our homes. We offered Series 1 to a select group, online. Now in this Series 10, we invite all of you to join us online (i.e, in your own homes and during the dinner hour: you are welcome to eat as you listen and engage) as we make our way into Narnia again: one novel a month from September 2023 to April 2023, with a pause taken for a special Session on Christmas Carols in December 2023. Each of these novels is like the experience we have of the best people we know, who are so approachable on first meeting them but whose depth and richness of insight becomes more and more as we know them better. The novels by Lewis are masterpieces - intensely wise and well-told tales.

TFS 10,1: Narnia Here and There: The Magician's Nephew

September 11, 2023 • Rick Ganz

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 1 on The Magician's Nephew from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “We must now go back a bit and explain what the whole scene had looked like from Uncle Andrew’s point of view. It had not made at all the same impression on him as on the Cabby and the children. For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”

TFS 10,2: Narnia Here and There: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

October 2, 2023 • Rick Ganz

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 2 on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office.”

TFS 10,3: Narnia Here and There: Prince Caspian

November 6, 2023 • Rick Ganz

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 3 on Prince Caspian from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz.

TFS 10,4: Lessons in Carols

December 4, 2023 • Rick Ganz

Part IV of this series will take a pause on The Chronicles of Narnia and shift to a special reading of Christmas Carols. This Session is led by Rick Ganz who will “read”, and find the lessons within, the great carols of the Advent-Christmas season.

TFS 10,5: Narnia Here and There: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

January 8, 2024 • Rick Ganz

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 5 on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “Dearest,” said Aslan very gently, “you and your brother will never come back to Narnia.” “Oh, Aslan!!” said Edmund and Lucy both together in despairing voices. “You are too old, children,” said Aslan, “and you must begin to come close to your own world now.” “It isn’t Narnia, you know,” sobbed Lucy. “It’s you. We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?” “But you shall meet me, dear one,” said Aslan. “Are—are you there too, Sir?” said Edmund. “I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

TFS 10,6: Narnia Here and There: The Silver Chair

February 5, 2024 • Paul Pastor

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 6 on The Silver Chair from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Paul Pastor. "I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

TFS 10,7: Narnia Here and There: The Horse and His Boy

March 4, 2024 • Rick Ganz

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 7 on The Horse and His Boy from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. "Child," said the Lion, "I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."

TFS 10,8: Narnia Here and There: The Last Battle

April 8, 2024 • Rick Ganz

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 8 on The Last Battle from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”

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Narnia: Here and There