It is easy sometimes to get wrapped up in the experience of reading all the latest new books and to loose sight of old favorites. Today though, Wayne Thomas Batson's Door Within Trilogy is being rereleased, and I really want it to have it's moment in the sun.

This trilogy came along when the idea of Christian speculative fiction was quite young, and beyond Tolkien and Lewis, very little of it was well known. Enter the tale of a boy who is transported to another world to become a knight. Along the way he learns so much more than how to wield a sword. And he begins to realize that the war being fought with physical weapons in the fantasy world is also happening in his world on a completely different plane where no spear or arrow can help.

While written primary for younger children, The Door Within Trilogy offers a great deal of thoughtful material for adults as well. In a way, these books are a mythic defense of Christian's reading fantasy and the existence of Christian fantasy at all. These stories show in the most straightforward of terms what can be learned through fantastical stories and how deeply it can bolster faith. Because they are written with a younger audience in mind though, these are stories that very young children can hear read aloud and older kids can read again and again and assimilate without full understanding many truths that will help them in adulthood.

So keep an eye out for these rereleases and share them with friends and children. They may have been some of the first books Christian SF had to offer, but they remain some of the best.