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Tuesday September 29, 2009
Books • Harry Potter • Witchcraft:
A memoir by George W Bush’s former speechwriter claims that Bush administration officials objected to giving JK Rowling a presidential medal of freedom on the grounds that her Harry Potter books “encouraged witchcraft”.
Latimer, whose memoir Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor was published last week by Crown in the US, says that the “narrow thinking” of “people in the White House” led them “to actually object to giving the author JK Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged witchcraft“.
See also: Harry Potter is converting Christian critics, Christian themes abound in Potter and How the boy wizard won over religious critics — and the deeper meaning theologians now see in his tale
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Monday October 22, 2007
Harry Potter:
Well, it’s official. Albus Dumbledore, a hero of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter series and headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts, is gay.
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Saturday October 20, 2007
Harry Potter:
Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.
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Friday October 19, 2007
Harry Potter:
Instead of focusing on how things like witchcraft and paganism are anti-Christian themes, they should have been criticizing Rowling’s interpretation of life after death.
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Thursday August 2, 2007
Books • Harry Potter:
Where are the pictures of angry, book-burning Christians? Where are the denouncements of the books as pagan incitements to the occult, drawing the nation’s children down the path of witchcraft? It has all been strangely quiet on the theological front.
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Monday July 30, 2007
Books • Harry Potter:
(Spoiler alert: If you want to avoid learning anything significant, finish the book before you read this column.)
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Wednesday July 18, 2007
Harry Potter:
The Church of England is publishing a guide advising youth workers how to use Harry Potter to spread the Christian message.
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Thursday December 21, 2006
Harry Potter:
Christmas came early for fans of the Harry Potter series this year, with the revelation of the title of the long-awaited seventh book.
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Sunday August 6, 2006
Harry Potter:
And you thought Harry Potter was kids' stuff ? Try telling that to the delegates who packed into a conference in Las Vegas last week discussing moral alignment and metanarrative in the works of JK Rowling. But one question: why were the mostly female delegates dressed up as witches and schoolgirls and talking feverishly about Potter porn?
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Sunday July 2, 2006
Harry Potter:
J.K. Rowling has dropped the hint - the wizard may expire. How will this affect those who live in Potterland? John Elder finds out.
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Wednesday March 1, 2006
Harry Potter:
The Vatican's chief exorcist has claimed the Harry Potter stories could lead children into Satanism.
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Sunday November 20, 2005
Harry Potter:
Course focuses on boy wizard books
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Saturday November 19, 2005
Harry Potter:
The opening of the new Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," today will bring both avid fans and staunch critics to the forefront. Some will even decry the series as one that teaches children the art of witchcraft, while others will compare the characters and their practices with real people who practice Wicca.
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Friday July 29, 2005
Harry Potter:
Harry Potter nuts are gathering for the first academic conference focusing on the world of their teenage wizard hero.
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Monday July 18, 2005
Harry Potter:
A word of caution to all those hard-core fans about to dive into the latest adventures of Harry Potter: There will be tears.
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Sunday July 17, 2005
Harry Potter:
DALLAS -- Harry Potter: pariah or parable? For a vocal group of Christians, the answer was resoundingly pariah when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" made its U.S. debut in 1998.
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Thursday July 14, 2005
Harry Potter:
BERLIN (AP) — In a letter sent two years before becoming pope, Benedict XVI expressed concern that the Harry Potter books "erode Christianity in the soul" of young people, a German writer says.
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Harry Potter:
LONDON (Reuters) - The sixth and penultimate installment of the "Harry Potter" saga goes on sale at the weekend, ending months of hype, gag orders and arrests marking the build-up to the publishing event of the year.
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Monday July 11, 2005
Harry Potter:
The latest book in the series will be released Saturday morning.
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Friday July 8, 2005
Harry Potter:
NORFOLK, Va. — When the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry fly off on broomsticks, most Harry Potter fans think "magic." Charlene Haviland thinks "aerodynamics."
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Wednesday April 6, 2005
Harry Potter:
Amazon.com Teams with UPS and the United States Postal Service to Deliver the Sixth Harry Potter Book to Customers' Doorsteps on Its July 16 Release Date for the Same Price as Standard Shipping
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Thursday February 3, 2005
Harry Potter:
(02-01) 11:34 PST (AP) -- Walk into the Logos Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., and you'll find Bibles, the "Left Behind" novels and a lot of other works you'd expect at a Christian shop.
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Wednesday July 28, 2004
Harry Potter:
JK Rowling made the "chilling" discovery that villains in her books used the same twisted logic as the Nazis when she visited a Holocaust museum, the author has revealed.
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Saturday April 17, 2004
Harry Potter:
Harry Potter is the "new Prozac", helping beat teen depression and suicide, an academic says.
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Thursday April 15, 2004
Harry Potter:
The story of young wizard Harry Potter and his adventures at Hogwarts school are a cultural and literary phenomenon, with 250 million books sold in 200 countries and 60 languages.
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