Fantasy is nothing in and of itself but takes its character in opposition to an unsatisfactory reality.
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Fantasy, Because Reality Is Unsatisfactory
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A John Bunyan Defense of Harry Potter
Given how for years we’ve been witnessing certain evangelical Christians criticizing, banning and occasionally burning the Harry Potter books, what are we to make of their inability to appreciate Harry’s Christ-like sacrifice as the end of “The Deathly Hallows”?
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Narnia, Much More than a Sermon
Jason Blake, my Ljubljana colleague, set off an interesting discussion two weeks ago when he wrote a post on on reading nonsense poetry to his daughter. Many readers wrote in about children’s literature, and at one point in the discussion Jason posted a poem by Robert Lewis Stevenson that made a number of us, with […]
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