Resources by Topic: Culture and Worldview

In our last EPM quarterly newsletter I included an excerpt from Alex Harris’s The Myth of Adolescence. I’ve known the Harris family for many years. Gregg and Sono have been used of God to raise extraordinary children. 

As promised, here are Ann Tatlock’s insights on the Harry Potter series.

Scholastic’s first US printing of the new Deathly Hallows, released last week, was an unprecedented twelve million copies. Over eight million copies sold in the first 24 hours. A newscaster said the other night that five thousand Harry Potter books are being sold every minute in the United States.

Nurses may assume that siblings of children with Down syndrome feel burdened by responsibility. The opposite often proves true, however, Studies reveal that brothers and sisters of children with Down syndrome are affected much more positively than negatively.

There they go again. The liberal media, it seems, likes nothing better than to play up what they see (or create) as divisions in the evangelical ranks.

ChristianityTodayMovies.com included some excerpts from the following statements in their article.

We believe that this proclamation of Jesus is both true to the story, and at the heart of why the Waodani could believe and be transformed.

I have spent hours on the phone in the last week with End of the Spear producers Mart Green and Steve Saint.

The attacks of September 11 and the resulting war against terrorism have brought to the front once again the question of the Christian view of war.

Two things in the End of the Spear movie make it useful for dialog with Muslims about problems we are experiencing from published cartoons of Mohammed.

Unknown to many, before Rosa Parks was a civil-rights catalyst, she was a devoted Christian who memorized Scripture and taught Sunday school.

I was reading and meditating on the book of Hebrews recently, when it hit me forcefully that a basic and compelling reason for education—the rigorous training of the mind—is so that a person can read the Bible with understanding.

The controversy over the decision of judges to starve her to death is not going away anytime soon—and that’s a good thing.

If we had more pastors like Rice, we’d have fewer judges like Greer.