Take a look at some of the upcoming or newly released movies next time you’re in a theatre. Fantasy books-turned-movie such as Eragon, Stardust, The Golden Compass and The Seeker have popped out in rapid succession, making me wonder if there’s something going on here that we should be paying attention to. While these movies [...]
If you are signed into wordpress while looking at a wordpress blog, then you’ll see a blue tool bar at the top of your page with a series of drop-down menus that allow you to access your dashboards among other things. The far right tool bar, as I just accidentally discovered, is labeled “blog [...]
I’m working on a section for the youth worker’s manual (see the downloads under edt resources) and I’m trying to summarize how girls and boys approach spirituality. Now this might not be differences so much as comparisons, but I have a theory that the way that girls and boys approach spirituality is different along the [...]
The Duck of Minerva has a thoroughly thought-out post on “What Harry Potter inherits from Star Wars.” This post discusses the way stories like this become constitutive myths for an entire generation.
I thought it was a great parallel between the two, especially because as myths, both stories have huge amounts of truth in them, [...]
I recently finished reading the long-awaited final installment of the Harry Potter series, and discovered several things the church could learn from Harry about what teenagers are looking for.
As early as the first book in the series, we learn that Harry is destined for a fight that could prove deadly. A terrible villain is looking [...]
I moved this from another blog. The original post was on May 22nd.
“Help! I’ve been kidnapped by a monster who’s trying to relate to me!” This from Arthur, the teenage heir to the throne of Far Far Away after Shrek musters every bit of slang you could possible cram into less than a minute of [...]
