A donkey in a lion’s skin shouldn’t fool anyone—yet when we forget the true Lion, costumes start to look convincing. We close our Narnia arc with The Last Battle, following the trail from deception and power-grabbing religion to judgment that clarifies everything and a new creation that feels more real than stone underfoot. Along the way, we meet Shift’s manipulative theatre, Puzzle’s naive complicity, and the dwarfs’ tragic cynicism, and we press into why Lewis insists Aslan and Tash cannot be blended into a polite “Tashlan.” That clarity doesn’t cancel mercy: we wrestle with Emeth’s startling welcome and what it says about sincerity, goodness, and the King who reads the heart.
We talk about counterfeit Christs, why cultures and churches grow weak when they trade the biblical Jesus for a fashionable one, and how discernment becomes a form of love in an age of spin. Judgment arrives not as an arbitrary decree but as exposure to a face—some look and love, some turn and hate—and the results are simply the truth about what we want most. Then the door opens. Colours intensify, distances call, and the cry goes up: further up, further in. Lewis refuses the thin clichés of heaven, instead sketching resurrection life as a world renewed around the presence of the good but not safe King—solid joy, deeper home, and an endless adventure.
If you’ve ever wondered how to spot a false lion, how to live hopefully with judgment in view, or how to imagine eternity without flattening it into clouds and harps, this conversation is for you. Listen, reflect, and share it with someone who loves Narnia or needs a bracing vision of the real. If the wardrobe door is still open for you, step through—then subscribe, leave a review, and tell us what “further up and further in” means in your life.
The theme music is "Wager with Angels" by Nathan Moore
