“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40 In light of the recent tragedy in Haiti, we know that many of you are using your gifts, talents and resources to provide various types of aid and support to those [...]

Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected the information about child-psychology and decided what age group I’d write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out ‘allegories’ to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn’t write in that way at all. Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasn’t even anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord. It was part of the bubbling.