![]() ![]() In an oddly appropriating act, the 2018 film version of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time expunged its many Christian references. McLaughlin holds a PhD in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. Rowling, another author referenced on the side of good-o ld British paganism, chose not to disclose her fragile Christian faith until the last Harry Potter book was published, precisely because of its Christian influence: she feared it would give the story away. Rebecca McLaughlin answers 12 hard questions for Christians in her new book, Confronting Christianity. The author cited The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia as examples of stories shaped by paganism, failing to note that Tolkien and Lewis were passionate Christians who grounded their stories in the death-a nd-r esurrection truth claims of Jesus. In the same year, I stumbled upon an Atlantic article that promised to explain “Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories.” 4 As a Brit living in America, I read it eagerly, only to find it arguing that American children’s stories are less compelling because they are more Christian. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion (The Gospel Coalition) McLaughlin, Rebecca on. ![]() Likewise, at the 2016 “Reason Rally,” designed to mobilize atheists, agnostics, and “nones,” multiple speakers invoked Martin Luther King’s March on Washington-as if a rally that despised Christianity would have pleased one of the most powerful Christian preachers in American history. ![]()
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