Paper Withdraws Claim That Dobson is a Harry Potter Fan

A major newspaper backed away from declaring Focus on the Family founder James Dobson a fan of Harry Potter, despite articles on Dobson’s Web site which fellow fundamentalists have long attacked as “conditional acceptance” of the hit fantasy film and...

The Offense of Fantasy

With seven bestsellers in the series, and five blockbuster movies, like it or not, Harry Potter is here to stay. And there are those who are not happy about that. Many Christian parents and church leaders fear that Harry’s popularity promotes witchcraft and...

Living Deliberately

In the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau walked away from his everyday life in Concord, Mass., in exchange for an intentional, uncomplicated life. “I went to the woods,” Thoreau wrote in Walden, “because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...