If you have been to the movies, visited your local bookstore, or scanned the tabloids at the supermarket within the past four years, then you have probably heard something about Stephanie Meyer's Twilight books. The film adaptations have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, and the books remain on best-seller lists nearly two years after the finale was published. If your neighbors have not read Twilight, then their teenage daughters almost certainly have.
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Jordan Easley is an M.Div. student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Wheaton College, Illinois.
Issue: "Canon Formation" May/June 2010 Vol. 19 No. 3 Page number(s): 40-42
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