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Back to Episodes90. Does the Harry Potter Series Cast or Condemn Real-World Dark Magic? | with G. Shane Morris
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Evangelical, of number 316, Piety Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Then their children (some of whom supposed they had been living in a cupboard under the stairs) learned about a world of witches, wizards, and schools for both: J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Now, twenty years after the first Potterverse film premiered in theaters, how do we as Christians view the adventures of the Boy Who Lived?
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Concession stand
- We won’t focus so much on the magic at this time.
- For more on that topic, see our Fictional Magic series.
- Also see Marian Jacobs’s recent article about discerning fictional magic.
- We’re focusing on the greater themes of Harry Potter and its fans/enemies.
- When we address “political” issues, it is really about religious worldview debates.
Introducing G. Shane Morris
Shane Morris is a senior writer at the Colson Center and host of the Upstream podcast as well as cohost of the BreakPoint podcast. He has been a voice of the Colson Center since 2010 as coauthor of many BreakPoint commentaries and columns. He has also written for The Federalist, The Christian Post, and Summit Ministries, and he blogs regularly for Patheos Evange