http://ekklesia.co.uk/tags View tagged content by tags en http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/5966 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Hard-line Christian groups who say mild-mannered Harry Potter is an occult conspiracy are unlikely to be reassured by news that one of its key characters is gay - even though JK Rowling has confirmed the series is based on Christian themes.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/5966#comment Community and Family Education and Culture News Brief Christians CS Lewis Dumbledor evangelical evil Grindelwald Harry Potter gay Hogwarts JK Rowling lesbian occult Peter Tatchell Pope Pullman religious right satanic schools UK News witchcraft Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:33:07 +0100 staff writers 5966 at http://ekklesia.co.uk http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/5504 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Religiously constructed rows over sorcery, metaphor and meaning in Harry Potter are hardly new, as Simon Barrow has personal reason to know. He suggests we all chill out and finding meaning not menace in the narrative.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/5504#comment Education and Culture Religion and Society anti-Christ Chicago seminary church of england Churches Together in Britain and Ireland ctbi ecumenical harry potter Media Centre missiology Simon Barrow Susan Thistlethwaite the deathly hallows theology witchcraft Culture and Review Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:36:21 +0100 Simon Barrow 5504 at http://ekklesia.co.uk