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Why Does Narnia Have Christmas?

Why Does Narnia Have Christmas?

Joy to the world springs from sorrow to God

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A Pauline Baynes illustration produced after the original publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

When Lucy first enters Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,1 how does Tumnus cap off the dreadful state of their world? The White Witch has made it “always winter and never Christmas.”

As a child, or even as an adult, we can imagine the …

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