Turkish delight narnia metaphor series#
The Christian allegories of Lewis’s Narnia series are often celebrated within Anglican circles, and indeed across our world. They become kings and queens, the foretold sons and daughters of Adam & Eve. A young girl, along with her siblings, seeks a way out through an enchanted wardrobe into an ethereal world, where they eventually vanquish evil with the help of Aslan. During the airborne attack of cities across the United Kingdom by a fascist regime in the 1940s, four children are sent to a mysterious house in the countryside, where they will be safer. It was no accident for Turkish Delight-an impossible luxury to obtain during wartime austerity-to be featured in C.S Lewis’s story if one considers the plot. Indeed, I’d like to further reimagine our Turkish Delight as an artefact of sacred resistance. Rather than the fictional “enchanted” Turkish delight of the storybook, I imagine our lokum for Advent 2020–deployed via individual tins that were made with solar power, and delivered straight to our Episcopal Church in Dupont Circle-to be ‘blessed,’ as a testimonial to the power of light! It was, after all, the enchanted temptation for which young Edmund Pevensie betrays his fellow “Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve” in order to secure. Over the past years, a feature for this Sunday’s festive Coffee Hours was rose-flavoured lokum candy, colloquially known as “Turkish Delight.” This might appear to be a rather subversive menu choice, given the treat’s notoriety in C.S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe. That includes opportunities for new traditions that are uniquely ours, capturing the imagination of our diocese. I’ve rejoiced that our jewel of a parish church in Dupont Circle truly welcomes everyone. And I believe that referencing the rare liturgical colour-even if only as subtle as a treat for Coffee Hour-provides an opportunity for our faith community to learn more about our Episcopal liturgical calendar, and our history, in a creative way. I’ve always felt that the more joyful nature of Gaudete Sunday, in the midst of a generally penitential season, provides an opportunity for something different. Thomas’ – transferred!” It has been a joy to watch our congregation celebrate together as many of us wished each other a safe, festive journey away to another place. It always felt to me like “Christmas at St. Traditionally, this Third Sunday of Advent is many parishioners’ last Sunday in Washington, DC before travelling to visit families for Christmas. “Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?”
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