4 Quotes & Sayings By John Granger

John Granger is a writer and editor who has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years. He has been the editor of The Sunday Times Magazine and the editor of the Sunday Times Insight team, The Spectator and Guardian Insight. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, The Economist and numerous other publications.

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When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the “suspension of disbelief” and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies. John Granger
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Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils. John Granger
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This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. John Granger