My family and a couple of other First Pres families recently went to see the latest Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" at the Lansing IMAX.  Before the beginning of the movie on of the teenage members of those families leaned over to me and asked, "Pastor Jim, why is it that some churches don't want their members reading Harry Potter books and seeing Harry Potter movies?"

I did not have to think long to make the response, "Because these same churches don't want their church members to learn how to think for themselves and draw their own conclusions about the books they read!"

Some churches want to keep their people dumb.  J.K. Rowling (author of the 7 Harry Potter books in case you didn't know!) has done more to develop the vocabularies and reading skills of the young readers in my house more than any other author.

Not only this, but these books and subsequent movies have fed the imaginations of the members of my family and so many other members. 

I confess here and now that I am NOT a "true believer" when it comes to Harry Potter, I have only read the first book though I have seen all five movies.  Other members of my family are "true believers".  The other night I overheard a discussion when someone asked, "Didn't it make you sad in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when "So and So" died?" 

I unwisely interjected myself into the conversation, "Aw, come on, this is only a stupid book, you can't REALLY be sad when an imaginary character in book dies?"

I tell you, I got the worst stare and verbal tongue-lashing, "You are not a TRUE BELIEVER!"

Well, maybe not, but what I can say is that THANK GOD I belong to a church where we can read anything we want and make up our own minds about it!  When it comes right down to it, I believe that Harry Potter is good for your soul because it strengthens and feeds the imagination with such lively characters and plot lines though convoluted they are.

Imagination is necessary to capture our minds and feed our spiritual development. Imagination is a kind of faith. Any material that directs our imagination and gets us thinking about good and evil, friendship, sacrificing self for a greater good is worthy of our consideration.  The more that we can imagine these things that occur in the abstract in Harry Potter and other good literature, the better prepared we are to act on these in our own lives when the time comes. 

Harry Potter is good for your soul!

pj

Jim -

Right on! Censorship is wrong whether it comes from the State or the Church. Read on!

Bob Clifford

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