J.K. Rowling
On Joss Whedon, cancel culture and the Bible
By Jana Riess — February 25, 2021
(RNS) — I won’t be torching my Harry Potter books or throwing my Buffy DVDs on a bonfire. I’d have to throw my Bible to the flames as well.
Canceling authors: The debate over who owns our stories
By Tara Isabella Burton — February 6, 2020
(RNS) — In the age of fan fiction, the age of memes, the age of mashups and YouTube compilations, we no longer take for granted that there is a single, fixed narrative — one that belongs to the author, by virtue of him or her having invented it.
How fan fiction gave millennials power over their spirituality
By Tara Isabella Burton — March 22, 2019
(RNS) — The internet has transformed our consumption of texts — even sacred texts — into malleable pieces that can be reimagined, reinvented and owned in a new way.
Harry Potter and a failure of the Christian imagination
By Laura Turner — September 24, 2014
A housewife takes it upon herself to rewrite Harry Potter as a Christian tale. Except there's more to the story.
Dumbledore writes to Mormon teen shooting victim
By Jana Riess — August 7, 2014
What did Albus Dumbledore write to teen shooting victim Cassidy Stay? This is the man who said, "It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated.”
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