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On Canceling the ‘Baby-Eating’ Baby Yoda

What happens when fandom and cancel culture collide with a misplaced sense of morality? · Parker J. Cole

It’s Not in the Rating: Looking at Negative Influences in Stories: Frozen and Grand Torino

Do ratings reliably guide us concerning the negative influence a film may have? A comparison of the movies Frozen and Gran Torino looks at this and related issues. · Travis Perry

Are We Part of the Problem?

What is our responsibility as authors? Do we share any of the blame if our words put ideas into people’s heads or ignite the brittle underbrush that already exists in depraved minds and is just waiting for the spark? · Mark Carver

That Time a Serial Killer Confessed to Me

Once upon a time, an ordinary conversation slipped into a killer admitting horrific crimes. I’m sharing this story to talk about the nature of evil and also because… · Travis Perry

From the Archives: How Dark is Too Dark?

How dark is too dark? Is it permissible to include horrific and explicit elements in a story intended for the Christian market? · Mark Carver

Preview Lorehaven Magazine’s Spring 2018 Issue Online!

Readers can now preview all of Lorehaven Magazine’s spring 2018 issue, even without subscribing. · E. Stephen Burnett

Speculative Fiction Writer’s Guide to War, Part 7: The Fearless Elite

How likely is it to find the farm kid who is fearless in the face of danger and ready to kill the enemy? Rarer than you think. · Travis Chapman

Speculative Fiction Writer’s Guide to War, Part 6: Psychology of Warfare: The Act of Killing

The human response to killing in a combat environment is influenced by distance and method. · Travis Chapman

Speculative Fiction Writer’s Guide to War–part 1, Reasons

For what reasons do human beings fight wars? And how can we apply understanding these causes of conflict to speculative stories? · Travis Perry

Guns. Lots of Guns.

Guns are fun to shoot in real life and fun to watch on-screen. But they are just a tool. · Mark Carver

Is Violence Biblical?

Brennan McPherson explores how violence in stories and Scripture compare with biblical commands. · Brennan S. McPherson

Some Jokes Are Not Funny

The way I see it, the Joker is a very good allegory for the human soul and psyche stripped of God’s grace. Man’s fallen nature doesn’t just wallow in sin; it runs headlong into sin’s arms · Mark Carver

Heavy Metal

After the recent shooting in Orlando, the media’s attention once again turned to gun control, the meaning of the Second Amendment, and the nation’s obsessions with firearms. Everything that could possibly be said on both sides of the issue has been said, but there is one truth on which I believe everyone can agree: entertainment without weapons would be pretty boring. · Mark Carver

Body Count Vs. Human Cost

Unless violence and death happen to the main characters in a story, we rarely see and feel the human cost of those deaths, of the families left behind, of the children now orphaned, of the villages and kingdoms without their leaders, of the friends and lovers whose hearts ache for those they can never embrace again. · Mark Carver

No Rest For The Weary

Nothing offers us the sanctuary we thought it would when we first laid eyes on it. But we keep looking, and we know that we cannot stop or we will perish. · Mark Carver

Jesus Vs. The Punisher

The Punisher isn’t a Christ-figure, but all his comic reinventions remind me of our fake Jesus versions. · Zach Bartels

Realism and The Christian Artist

What makes the work Christian is not the bad that happens, but the good that comes out of it. · C. E. Laureano

Here There Be Monsters…

Human nature wants to worship something big. King Kong was worshiped by the island natives, volcanoes and mountains have become gods, and dragons rule the realms of fantasy. The gods that are worshiped by the various religions of the world are massive and powerful. · Mark Carver

Evangelical Vs. Progressivist Content Warnings 103

Content warnings can temporarily keep us from temptations to sin or traumatic flashbacks, but they cannot help us find final healing. · E. Stephen Burnett
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