A reader named RB has offered a comment and question concerning our favorite magician, Harry Potter: I really appreciate your blogs on Harry Potter and your goal to challenge typical evangelical thinking. It needs done. I’m wondering what your opinions are on sorcery being used within a story (as in LOTR, Narnia, and Harry Potter). […]
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Is Peter Pan satanic too?
Olabode Ososami has continued his tirade against Harry Potter. Sadly, he has also taken to deleting the comments of those who are critical of his views, a move which tends to make dialogue rather challenging. In his first article he ominously warned against watching the HP films: spiritually, it will cost a Christian everything … […]
An Open Letter to Harry Potter
Dear Mr. Potter, I wanted to thank you for your astounding achievement. No, not the beating Lord Voldemort bit. Kudos for that to be sure. But I wanted to thank you for a greater achievement: getting kids engaged in literature. We live in a culture where literacy is going down the tubes. A century ago kids wrote […]
Alister McGrath writes fantasy? What’s next? A cookbook?
This is an unabashedly churlish review of Alister McGrath’s new book The Aedyn Chronicles: Chosen Ones. It is based on a quick read of the first chapter. That first chapter was photocopied and handed to me — unsolicited mind you — from a pastor who is a big fan both of Alister McGrath the Theologian […]
