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Should Christians be more like JK Rowling?
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Jemimah Wright2024-02-23T09:00:00
We live in a culture where people are regularly ‘cancelled’ for speaking out against the wider or more popular opinion. Woman Alive’s deputy editor, Jemimah Wright looks at JK Rowling’s experience, and wonders what those of us in the body of the Church can learn from her.
What do you know about JK Rowling? Pretty much everyone is aware she is the author of the hugely successful Harry Potter books, first published in 1997. You may also be aware that Rowling has been writing a series of crime books for adults under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
But have you been following her ‘cancellation’? The idea that someone can be ‘cancelled’ for what they believe has been normalised in our culture. Is it something we, as Christian women should be concerned about?
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