Harry Potter and the Curse of Evangelical Paranoia - Jeffrey Overstreet

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Harry Potter and the Curse of Evangelical Paranoia

A collection of 9 posts

On Movies & Media

Rowling: I was judged in FAO Schwarz

Here's a new TIME Magazine interview with J.K. Rowling. Excerpt: Through it all, Rowling didn't really fight back. Talk too much about her faith, she feared, and it would become clear who would live and who would die and who might actually do both. After

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Harry Potter; Mother Teresa; Wilson on Atheism Books; Cummings on Satyajit Ray

I'm a week late to this blog entry, but wow... Andy Whitman writes about music better than just about anybody I know. And now he's posted a home-run entry about Harry Potter. * Yesterday I posted news about the new book on Mother Teresa. Here's

On Movies & Media

A Reader Comments on Focus on the Family's Rejection of Harry Potter

I received this note from a reader in response to something I mentioned in my review of Stardust: After following the Focus on the Family link about Harry Potter in the Looking Closer review of Stardust, I went to Focus's homepage, and the first story was Dr. Dobson

On Movies & Media

To Damn Harry Potter or Praise Him?

WARNING: SPOILERS ARE INCLUDED IN SOME OF THESE LINKS! Here's Christianity Today's Ted Olsen on the wide range of evangelical-Christian reactions to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Meanwhile, most of the Catholic blog-coverage has treated the arrival of The Deathly Hallows as a

On Books & Writing

Burning Harry at the Stake

More Christians line up to condemn Harry Potter as the devil's business... at Christian Today (not to be confused with Christianity Today.) While they're at it, why not blacklist Pinocchio , Peter Pan , Snow White and the Seven Dwarves , the tales of King Arthur, and Beauty and

On Books & Writing

"Harry Potter's Story is God's Plan and Our Hope."

Two reviews by mainstream film reviewers have been published: Kenneth Turan and A.O. Scott. Meanwhile, the rest of the reviewers seem to be following the rules that they agreed to follow before they were given the privilege of an advance screening. (It bugs me that I have to respect

On Books & Writing

Harry Potter smackdown!

Over at Christianity Today, it's time for this year's Harry Potter Smackdown! It begins with the positive review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at CT Movies, alongside an article called "Redeeming Harry Potter.". Then, the letters start pouring into the CT

Looking Elsewhere

Looking Elsewhere: November 19, 2005

Thursday's specials: DEFENDING LEWIS Hooray for GetReligion, as they expose the bloodthirsty journalists trying to get their knives into C.S. Lewis. I'm confident that the "deeper magic" of Lewis's stories will rise up and conquer character assassinations. DEFENDING POTTER You'

On Books & Writing

Annual Harry Potter debate

I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire yesterday and am hard at work on my review. You can warm up for this year's edition of "Christians for Harry Potter versus Christians against Harry Potter" by reading Russ Breimeier's new article, posted today