Poll: Harry Potter

[temporal1]

Redwall / Brian Jacques
https://www.redwallabbey.com/

Any thoughts on Redwall?

[Szdfan]

Redwall / Brian Jacques
https://www.redwallabbey.com/

Any thoughts on Redwall?

I got through about one and half books. Anthropomorphic medieval animals. I don’t remember any magic, but there is violence. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them, but not for me.

[temporal1]

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Redwall / Brian Jacques
https://www.redwallabbey.com/

Any thoughts on Redwall?

I got through about one and half books. Anthropomorphic medieval animals. I don’t remember any magic, but there is violence. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them, but not for me.

Watership Down?

[Szdfan]

Watership Down?

Haven’t read it. One of my professors in seminary based a lecture on it and used it as an allegory for Christian community. My understandings that parts of it are brutal.

My favorite anthropomorphic animal book is “Wind in the Willows.”

[temporal1]

Watership Down?

Haven’t read it. One of my professors in seminary based a lecture on it and used it as an allegory for Christian community. My understandings that parts of it are brutal.

My favorite anthropomorphic animal book is “Wind in the Willows.”

We checked out “Wind in the Willows” from the library, it’s a very nice illustrated version, hard cover. How did we overlook it?! She’s digging into it.

Put “The Hobbit,” and “Microbe Hunters” on hold.
Lots of good ideas in this thread.

[Szdfan]

Watership Down?

Haven’t read it. One of my professors in seminary based a lecture on it and used it as an allegory for Christian community. My understandings that parts of it are brutal.

My favorite anthropomorphic animal book is “Wind in the Willows.”

We checked out “Wind in the Willows” from the library, it’s a very nice illustrated version, hard cover. How did we overlook it?! She’s digging into it.

Put “The Hobbit,” and “Microbe Hunters” on hold.
Lots of good ideas in this thread.

It’s a fun book, though watch out for that Mr. Toad!

[temporal1]

It’s Christmas Day.

This thread turned into more than Harry Potter, and, that’s good.

This morning i remembered a children’s book, Raymond Briggs, then film, THE SNOWMAN,
i believe we first encountered it in late 1970’s, the early 1980’s, our children were born in 1977 and 1983, we all enjoyed it together.

It’s a story with few words. The book is lovely, so is the film.
The theme music is haunting, sweet.

THE SNOWMAN / 27:20 minutes

One crisp, winter morning, a young boy wakes up to find a thick blanket of snow has covered the ground as far as the eye can see. Filled with excitement, the boy decides to build a snowman using a tangerine for his nose, coal for his buttons and eyes, and tops him off with a hat and scarf.
Later that night, at the stroke of midnight, the snowman comes to life! The young boy and the snowman embark on a magical adventure of discovery where the snowman explores the young boy s world and in return he takes him flying to his home in the North Pole. Upon arriving at the North Pole, the two join a party as the guests of honor to a very special person.

Based on Raymond Briggs book, The Snowman
is a family classic for generations to enjoy.

Theme Music: Walking in the Air / 3:59 mnutes


Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_the_Air

Lyrics by Howard Blake (performed by Peter Auty)

We're walking in the air'
We're floating in the moonlit sky;
The people far below
Are sleeping as we fly.

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly
So high above with you.

On across the world
The villages go by like dreams,
The rivers and the hills,
The forests and the streams.

Children gaze open mouthed,
Taken by surprise;
Nobody down below
Believes their eyes.

We're surfing in the air,
We're swimming in the frozen sky,
We're drifting over icy
Mountains floating by.

Suddenly swooping low
On an ocean deep,
Rousing up a mighty monster
From his sleep.

We're walking in the air,
We're dancing in the midnight sky

[Josh]

Something that’s been a mystery to me is why evangelicals have such a problem with Harry Potter books but love Lord of the Rings (or the Chronicles of Narnia).

Interestingly the author (Rowling) is currently taking a lot of heat for not having sufficiently liberal views on transsexualism.

[temporal1]

Something that’s been a mystery to me is why evangelicals have such a problem with Harry Potter books but love Lord of the Rings (or the Chronicles of Narnia).

Interestingly the author (Rowling) is currently taking a lot of heat for not having sufficiently liberal views on transsexualism.

We humans are a curious bunch, Anabaptists not exempt.
i’m surprised at Rowling’s public stand. waiting to see if it’s authentic.

someone wrote somewhere, “you can never be ‘gay enough’ for” .. (the political bloc).
example: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insan ... gay-enough

i believe this is true, it would have to be, because there is only 1 source for peace,
1 who satisfies.

insatiable appetites, relentless dissatisfaction, are proof The One is needed.

[Josh]

Rowling seems to be sticking to her guns. Her PR team declined to meet “privately” with GLAAD.

Of note is the editorials in the NY Times and the Washington Post all roundly criticising her for daring to say that men in dresses are not women.