At the centennial of Marshall McLuhan’s birth, his brilliant musings about media, and the religious beliefs informing them, are still under-appreciated.
Soon after the opening weekend of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Rev. Bob Beltz saw what his Hollywood colleagues might be doing someday just before his funeral.
It’s a condensed version, not the two-volume 1890 epic or the12-volume monument from the following decades. The single volume contains more than enough magical minutia for ordinary readers.
Harry Potter froze in terror as the hellish Dementors rushed to suck out his godfather’s soul. But he was not powerless, because he had learned the Patronus Charm for use against the evil ones.
A steady stream of customers flowed right off the sidewalks into the long rows of Japanese newspapers, magazines, comics, computer books and novels. I found a revolving display rack of English books.
