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...given the lessons these books teach and the values they honor, how is it that they remain controversial? Even among evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian parents, there is a deep divide over how much to embrace the popular culture and use it for missionary purposes. On the one hand there are those who share the view of Jack Brock, pastor of the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M., which made worldwide headlines for its "holy bonfire" in December 2001, in which Harry Potter was among the books burned. The incident was taken out of context, says Brock. "The media made...
Perhaps the most surprising appropriation of Rowling's world took place at the conservative Vanguard Church in suburban Colorado Springs, Colo. Housed in an old movie theater, the six-year-old church has 1,100 members, including lots of young families. Using Harry Potter to teach Sunday school was the brainchild of Tosha Williams, the petite young wife of senior pastor Kelly Williams. "That's one thing about Southern Baptists--we're very pragmatic," she notes, "and our goal is to reach people with the Gospel." So the teachers dressed as wizards, and the church was entirely decorated, with darkened...
...scores her students have achieved and how they stack up against those of the school's total student body: all at Harrity are making progress, but Blakney's pupils are improving just a hair faster. Kid by kid, Blakney can look at any mathematical concept she's trying to teach--adding fractions with different denominators, for example--and see who understands it and who needs more help. "I can tailor my teaching accordingly," she says. "And I can show the kids. Children want to know 'How am I doing...
...wife Lexy has fallen from the apple tree in her backyard. Or jumped--he can't tell, and the only witness to her fall is a dog, a large, affectionate Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei. Paul becomes obsessed with finding out how his wife died. He sets out to teach Lorelei to talk so she can tell...
...what else they call her, no one calls Gilligan a Harvard professor anymore: the Starbucks she frequents these days is in Manhattan, not Cambridge. She left the confines of the Ed School this fall to become a full-time university professor at New York University, with the freedom to teach any class in any discipline...