The family of C.S. Lewis is reportedly unhappy with Meryl Streep voicing Aslan in the upcoming “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” adaptation by Netflix.

The company chose Streep to voice Aslan, a male lion who symbolizes Jesus in Lewis’ widely beloved children’s series and Christian allegory, despite the fact that Streep is a woman.

Dr. Ted Baehr, the founder of Movieguide, said in an interview with CBN News that he recently visited Tim Gresham — the son of 80-year-old Douglas Gresham, the stepson of Lewis.

The elder Gresham is the godfather of Baehr’s daughter-in-law, and Baehr relayed the family’s view of Streep as Aslan.

“C.S. Lewis would be turning over in his grave. His family is very upset about it, and I think we should be upset about it,” Baehr said of the casting choice.

“Theologically this is a tremendous heresy and it’s a tremendous problem… So it shouldn’t happen.”

Baehr indicated that Lewis’ family agrees with the sentiment from many Christians that replacing Aslan with a woman dangerously tampers with the allegory.

Meryl Streep will officially voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW’.

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— Film Crave (@_filmcrave) September 17, 2026

He also claimed that the family is working to regain control of The C.S. Lewis Company, which entered into an agreement with Netflix in 2018 to create new “Narnia” series and films.

“They did a big campaign. They’re trying to regain control of The C.S. Lewis Company in order that–” Baehr said before cutting himself off, as noted by The Christian Post.

“The problem is, and this happens quite often — no, I shouldn’t tell you that. But anyway, things happen.”

Baehr continued by listing the problems with casting a woman to voice Aslan.

“One, it’s beloved; one, it’s going to destroy the brand. But there’s a deeper issue, which is the theological issue,” he said.

“Because God the Father, and Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit and, of course, the whole process leads toward ‘The Last Battle,’ and ‘The Last Battle’ represents Jesus in Heaven,” he said in reference to the final “Narnia” book.

“If God is a Father, He is not Meryl Streep pretending to be a father. He’s not trans. He’s the Father, He’s our Father. He loves us, He adopts us,” Baehr added.

“You have to have God as a Father. You can’t have God being voiced as a woman. This is not theologically correct.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By Paul D. Thacker

When Bari Weiss was hired to lead CBS News last year, many of the network’s star reporters feared the centrist founder of The Free Press news site would turn the network into a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after he accused Weiss of “murdering the show.”

If the season premiere of “60 Minutes” is any indication, progressives have little to complain about. In a segment titled “The Pardon Economy,” veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl alleges that Trump has upended the way U.S. presidents have dispensed pardons for “100 years or more” by creating a “new system” that involves lobbyists and high-priced “pardon brokers.”

Stahl’s report suggests that Trump has replaced the normal order – in which pardons typically go through an apolitical review by the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney– with a scheme that looks like “pay-to-play.” It has already led Democrats to vow they will investigate the issue if they retake the House in the November mid-term elections.

To situate Trump in this “pardon lobbyists” narrative, Stahl links the White House to two convicted con artists who claim close ties to Trump without disclosing one critical detail: There is no evidence the two have ever succeeded in getting anyone a pardon. While their efforts suggest that some in Washington may be trying to capitalize on the narrative about Trump’s alleged corruption – inspired, in part, by questionable pardons he has issued previously – “60 Minutes” offers no concrete proof connecting the administration to these money-making schemes.

Stahl’s report also ignored the long history of wrongdoers paying exorbitant fees for lobbyists to get their pardons viewed by the Oval Office – most famously Bill Clinton’s brother, Roger, and Hillary’s brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham.

Although Stahl’s report quotes Trump officials denying her claims, a DOJ official who was outraged by her “misleading” report provided RealClearInvestigations with documents showing that well-connected D.C. insiders are routinely involved in the pardon process.

Leaked Documents

The DOJ documents shared with RCI involve the high-profile and controversial pre-emptive pardons issued by President Biden to Trump antagonists on his final day in office in 2025 – specifically top NIH official Anthony Fauci, U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

The release of pardon documents is highly unusual. Pardon documents are zealously guarded by the White House, in part because they can reveal lobbying and political considerations – the very matter Stahl’s report insinuates is novel under Trump. The official shared them under the condition that screenshots of the documents not be made public out of concern they might anger Trump, who has pushed for criminal investigations of document leaks.

The official noted that there is no evidence that “pardon brokers” put on camera by CBS have influenced the president and said that the documents were being released specifically to show that many pardon recipients retain expensive legal counsel to represent them. And despite the assertion in the “60 Minutes” report that pardons under prior administrations normally required admitting guilt, none of the three – or any of those pardoned by Biden, including his family members –  has expressed the slightest contrition.

What the leaked documents – the letters Milley, Cheney and Fauci sent accepting the pardons – do show is that Fauci, Milley, and Cheney were all using the services of high-

priced attorneys at politically connected law firms. They do not, however, provide any insight into how the pardons came about. Milley and Cheney’s letters to Biden were sent through attorneys at Williams & Connolly, a top-tier, white-shoe law firm based in Washington, D.C., that has long represented a wide range of powerful Democrats and Republicans.

Now a retired congressional investigator, Jason Foster helped to lead the House investigation of the Clinton pardon scandal. He said the Fauci, Milley, and Cheney pardon papers raise questions about when their attorneys first contacted the Justice Department and the Biden White House about the pardons.

“Based on my experience leading these investigations in the past, this is clearly not a first interaction their attorneys are having with the administration,” Foster said. “This doesn’t mean they’ve done anything wrong, but there’s no constitutional requirement that anyone go through the pardon attorney office.”

First Contact?

Williams & Connolly attorneys did not respond to RCI’s questions asking when they first contacted the Biden administration about pardons for retired General Milley and former Congresswoman Cheney. Nor did they answer questions regarding how much they charged for this work.

Records show that Fauci also had an attorney, David Schertler, send the letter accepting the pardon. That letter, however, was addressed not to the Justice Department, but to Biden’s White House Counsel.

“On behalf of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, we appreciate the President’s consideration and his action this morning on Dr. Fauci’s behalf,” reads the letter Schertler sent to Edward Siskel, Biden’s top legal advisor. “Dr. Fauci accepts the President’s pardon.”

Fauci emailed the Hill and contacted reporters at Reuters and other outlets that same day, claiming that the White House approached him about the pardon a month prior and that he did not ask for one. He added, “I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me.”

At a July Senate hearing, Senator Ashley Moody asked Fauci whether he spoke with President Biden and asked for the pardon. “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution,” Fauci replied. When asked multiple follow-up questions about how he got his pardon, Fauci again asserted his Fifth Amendment rights – as he did to every other question he was asked on a wide range of topics, including the color of his tie.

RCI emailed David Schertler extensive questions, asking when he first contacted the Justice Department and the White House about Fauci’s pardon. RCI also asked about his communications with attorneys in the pardon office and how much his firm charged Fauci for help with the pardon.

Schertler did not respond to RCI’s questions asking when he first contacted the Biden administration about Fauci’s pardon and how much his firm charged the former NIH official for pardon work.

Hidden Cameras

The centerpiece of the “60 Minutes” “pardon lobbyist” segment was an undercover investigation of Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, two characters offering to secure pardons for $300,000. But almost every fact detailed by “60 Minutes” on Burkman and Wohl had already been reported six months earlier by The New York Times.

Burkman and Wohl are conservative activists who were convicted of felonies for a robocall scheme to frighten black people against voting by mail in the 2020 presidential election, the Times reported. The two now work as lobbyists who allege special access to Trump and influencers such as Laura Loomer. The Times reporting established that Burkman and Wohl were selling their alleged access to secure pardons. The newspaper, for example, reported on an audio recording in which Burkman said that he and Wohl “use a combination of influencers and members of Congress,” as well as going “direct to the president, and I think that’s a very good approach.”

White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis emailed RCI that the Trump administration has a “robust pardon review process,” and President Trump makes the final decision. “Anyone spending money to lobby for pardons is foolishly wasting their money and the President doesn’t even know who these so-called ‘lobbyists’ are.”

“60 Minutes” also regurgitated details first reported last March in the Times of Burkman’s lobbying for pardons on behalf of nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz, who paid Burkman’s firm almost $1 million, and the rapper Torrence Ivy Hatch Jr., known as Boosie BadAzz, who paid the pair $600,000.

To create TV drama, “60 Minutes” worked with convicted felon Ammon Covino, who met with Burkman and Wohl at the Ritz-Carlton. “60 Minutes” recorded the interaction with hidden cameras. To make Burkman and Wohl look good, Stahl introduced them to listeners as purported accomplished “pardon brokers.”

“They claim they got one for this owner of a nursing home chain convicted of massive tax fraud,” Stahl said. “He paid them nearly a million dollars for their promise to reach the president.”

This is misleading. The Times reported that nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz stopped paying Burkman and Wohl after they failed to get him a pardon, a detail “60 Minutes” seems to have ignored. In fact, there is no evidence that Burkman and Wohl have gotten a pardon for anyone. Instead, Burkman and Wohl make money off felons by promising pardons that never seem to materialize.

RCI sent CBS News an extensive list of questions, noting apparent contradictions in their reporting, such as failing to note that two felons they recorded by hidden camera claiming they can get pardons have never actually gotten anyone a pardon. CBS News did not respond to these questions. A spokesperson sent this statement: “60 MINUTES stands behind our reporting and the investigative work our team did to shed light on the pardons process.”

Instead of advancing a narrative about a “new system” of “pardon lobbyists,” “60 Minutes” seems to have recycled key findings from the Clinton pardon scandal of 2001, while claiming their reporting has uncovered something new and unique about pardons in the Trump administration.

Clinton Pardon Scandals

During his final hours in office, President Bill Clinton signed a flurry of pardons that led to a years-long scandal that found his own brother, Roger Clinton, had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for pardons, as did brothers of first lady Hillary Clinton and an attorney who worked on her Senate campaign that year.

“Pardon for Felon Considered After Kin Paid Roger Clinton,” reported the New York Times in 2001 regarding a $50,000 payment to Roger by the family of Rosario Gambino, a convicted heroin trafficker and reputed organized crime figure. Just as Burkman and Wohl make wild claims of pardon success but never seem to deliver, the Gambino family told the Times that Roger Clinton led them to believe that a pardon for Rosario was a “lock.”

While Roger Clinton failed to get anyone a pardon, House investigators released a 2002 report that found that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for pardons. However, one person who did succeed in lobbying the Clinton administration for a pardon was Hillary Clinton’s brother, Hugh Rodham.

Two felons – a convicted drug dealer and a businessman who marketed a bogus baldness cure – paid Hugh Rodham a combined $400,000 to get them pardons, which included lobbying White House staff. House investigators found that Rodham’s lobbying efforts also involved telling White House staff that one of the pardons was “very important” to First Lady Clinton.

The House investigation also detailed similar actions by Hillary’s other brother, Tony Rodham, who secured pardons over the objection of the Justice Department by lobbying his brother-in-law, President Bill Clinton: “Tony Rodham lobbied President Clinton to grant pardons to Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory while he was receiving substantial sums of money from the Gregorys.”

The findings that felons had hired both Bill and Hillary’s family members to lobby the Clinton White House for pardons were widely covered by news outlets, including reporters at CBS News. Stahl joined the CBS News Washington bureau in the early 1970s and moved to “60 Minutes” in 1991, almost a decade before the Clinton scandal became national news. So it’s hard to understand how she missed these details of the Clinton pardon scandal to now claim the Trump administration has created a new “pardon economy,” as “60 Minutes” calls its news segment.

More Trump Probes

Although Stahl’s “60 Minutes” segment did not support its claim that Trump has created a unique new system for pardons, it is already prompting fresh partisan attacks against the president. In an online story that followed the “60 Minutes” piece, CBS News reported that Democrats were alarmed by the undercover video: “Senior Democratic lawmakers vowed Monday to investigate the new market that has sprung up around President Trump’s pardons, citing CBS News video of lobbyists offering to ‘put pressure on the president’ in exchange for a hefty fee from a convicted felon.”

Now the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jamie Raskin will likely lead these investigations. Raskin told CBS News that pardons are “kind of an underground market because not everybody knows how to get to it.”

CBS News failed to report, however, that one of the people who benefited from this underground market was Raskin himself, who Biden pardoned along with Liz Cheney on his final day in office.

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Tim Tebow is putting his relationship with a faith-driven conference company on hold as they face scam allegations.

The former NFL quarterback and prominent evangelical Christian responded to an investigation from Mother Jones into Life Surge, which found that the company was using predatory sales tactics to pressure attendees into investment programs.

Tebow said he would take a step back from his work with the entity.

“I think the allegations are extremely serious and it’s something that we take very serious,” Tebow said on Friday.

“For us we are having our team do an investigation but also pausing our relationship until we can learn more about the facts to be able to understand more.”

Breaking: Tim Tebow announces he is pausing all relations with Life Surge after Pablo Torre’s investigation

Tebow, who serves as a spokesman for the company, says he takes the allegations very seriously and his team will be conducting their own investigation

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— Noah Ram (@Noah_ram1) September 25, 2026

Tebow said he was “caught off guard” with the claims against Life Surge, noting that he was leaving a conference against human trafficking when he heard the news.

The former athlete has served as a Life Surge “Kingdom Ambassador” and has been a featured speaker at “faith and finance” events for the company, according to a report from the New York Post.

“It’s really important to get answers to understand every bit of that. In my heart, getting to share [at Life Surge] was to be able to share something that I love to share, which is the love of Christ and the good news of the gospel,” Tebow said.

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— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 26, 2026

The investigation claims that Life Surge would use well-known Christian speakers to draw attendees, only to aggressively market their finance and investment courses.

Mother Jones reported that attendees could enter the events for as little as $20, but that they were urged to take part in “SurgeU,” where courses could cost between $10,000 and $40,000.

If prospective attendees lacked the money for the courses, third-party lenders were made available to them.

The “SurgeU” courses vowed to “surge your resources and influence through real estate and trade — for Kingdom impact.”

Since his days in the NFL, Tebow has been involved with activism against human trafficking, as well as the Night to Shine program.

The project, which is funded by the Tim Tebow Foundation, hosts prom nights across the country for people with special needs.

Tebow now works as a college football analyst and sports broadcaster.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The conquered nation of the United Kingdom has unsurprisingly given a break to five men who could have killed several American soldiers stationed in the country to protect them.

The Daily Mail reported that five alleged terrorists who had been arrested over the suspected Iranian bomb plot at RAF Fairford will now all be released on bail.

British authorities have not named the suspects.

At a press conference announcing the suspects’ release, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor tried to assure the public that they would keep a close eye on the suspects and continue to investigate.

“To be very clear, this does not mean that the investigation is over,” Taylor told reporters. “They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.”

“They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of inquiry.”

WATCH:

The head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said that the five men arrested yesterday over a suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford will be released on bail, but they will remain under investigation. pic.twitter.com/IbgBlVMKHn

— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) September 28, 2026

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Meanwhile, Iran claims it had no involvement in the terror attack.

“The circulation of such fabricated speculations, particularly in the aftermath of the criminal acts of aggression committed by the United States and the Israeli regime against the Iranian people, will serve no purpose other than to fuel Iranophobia propaganda in the UK,” a statement from the Iranian embassy reads.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right to take appropriate legal measures, as necessary, to safeguard the rights and interests of the country and its people in response to misleading and damaging media narratives.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, British police made several arrests following a major incident at RAF Fairford airbase.

The U.S. Air Force was using the base to facilitate strikes on Iran.

Five suspects were photographed in British police detention after their suspicious vans, which were suspected of carrying chemicals and explosives, were reported traveling toward the air base.

Aerial footage captured by a news helicopter showed an explosive ordnance disposal robot operating near what is believed to be the vans used by the suspected terrorists.

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Armed Fulani Islamists from a settlement near the central market in Mangu Local Government Area, Plateau State, stormed the market as it closed around 7:30 p.m. on Friday, September 18, 2026. According to a field report, they targeted vehicles carrying Christian villagers who had come to sell sugarcane. The market is about 74 km southeast of Jos, the state capital. The field report recorded nine casualties, while the Guardian later reported eight dead. Sokden said six wounded people were receiving treatment the day after the attack.

Mwaghavul Development Association (MDA) President Bulus Dabit told Premium Times that gunmen fired several times at a vehicle leaving the market at about 8 p.m., killing two women and a young man. The shooting caused a stampede that injured traders and passersby. The shooting lasted about 20 minutes, and the gunmen also fired on other vehicles leaving the market. The seriously injured were referred to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).

Initial reports said five people had been killed. The Guardian later reported that the death toll had risen to eight. Resident Paul Musa told the Guardian that three people killed “from a different angle of the market” had not been counted among the first five.

Mathias Sokden, Director of Culture at the MDA, was interviewed in the field the day after the attack. He said three of the dead had been buried the previous evening, four of the wounded were being treated at JUTH and two more at a second facility. He said the attackers came from a location close to the market and struck as the traders were preparing to return home.

According to Sokden, the gunmen live in communities near the market that they have taken over, and they launch attacks on the market from there. “In fact, that’s our concern,” he said.

Sokden said witnesses heard the attackers speaking Fulani and saw them single out the victims as Christians. “They identified that this is the car that was carrying the Christians,” he said. Most of the victims came from Kogul community in Panyam district.

Sokden said the land there is waterlogged and suited only to sugarcane, and that the Christians of Kogul are the ones who farm and sell it in Mangu market. “Because you cannot see any Muslim that farms sugar cane except those Christians,” he said.

According to Sokden, the gunmen went to the section where sugarcane is sold. They did not enter the nearby sections where non-Christian traders sell tomatoes and other goods. “So they targeted this particular market where they are predominantly Christians. And the affected people are all Christians,” he said.

The one exception was a Muslim man who is not Fulani. Sokden said a stray bullet wounded him away from the main attack site. He added that most of the market is not divided by religion, but some sections, grouped by the goods sold there, are predominantly Christian or predominantly Muslim.

Truth Nigeria reported that local leaders identified the assailants as terrorists identifying as Fulani. It also reported that photos from the scene showed male and female victims with gunshot wounds to the abdomen, legs and knees.

The attack came hours after the MDA issued a statement following a joint meeting of its national executive, women’s leadership and youth leadership. The statement called for an immediate investigation into recent killings in the local government area. It said more than 750 Mwaghavul people had been killed in attacks since 2023, and was signed by Director of Public Affairs Friday Derwam.

On September 11, attackers had killed four people in the Mangu communities of Kikyau, Ntul and Kinat and wounded a fifth in Larkas, according to the Mwaghavul Youth Movement. Two more people were killed in Vodni, Mangu LGA, on the night of September 13, as part of 13 killings across Plateau State that night.

Police had not issued a statement on the market attack at the time of the first reports. Local media reported that troops of Operation Enduring Peace increased patrols and appealed to residents for information.

Dabit urged security agencies to use intelligence and technology to find the attackers, “as they would not be far from the scene.” On September 21, Commissioner for Information and Communication Joyce Lohya Ramnap announced a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and a motorcycle ban in Mangu, Bokkos and Barkin Ladi LGAs, after more than 20 people were killed across Plateau State in 48 hours.

Traders told the Guardian they lost their goods in the attack and that the next Friday market might not open, depending on the security presence. “We were shocked as this type of thing has never occurred before in this market,” one eyewitness said.

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