In the 24th episode of The Sacred, Elizabeth Oldfield talks to Casper ter Kuile host of the “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text” podcast. 17/10/2018

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Casper ter Kuile is a host of the “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text” podcast, a show that dissects J.K. Rowling’s classic series as if it were the Torah or the Bible. He was a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and is also a strategist at the podcast “On Being” with Krista Tippett.

In this episode, Casper talks about growing up in a non–religious environment but coming to religion on his own terms, his history in climate activism and how that led him to divinity school, as well as why it’s useful to explore texts like Harry Potter as ‘sacred’, as a way to appreciate its nuances and more subtle, but still prescient, messages.

This podcast is a project of Theos Think Tank (@theosthinktank) and is hosted by Elizabeth Oldfield (@theoselizabeth).

The Sacred is produced by Hussein Kesvani and No Country Media.

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