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Liturgy and Lunacy
Since Christianity is such an integral part of the Western society we inhabit, it’s only natural that it will have a prominent place in our stories. It shows up in all genres but we often see Christianity or its derivatives in fantasy, horror, and surprisingly, science fiction.
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Mark Carver
Halloween Stories In American Literature
It might be interesting to delve into the various traditions that have cropped up around the holiday over the years—bobbing for apples, carving pumpkins, making candied apples, trick-or-treating, wearing costumes, going to haunted houses, and storytelling.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
A Notable Lack
Holidays, and all the expressions of a whole and genuine religion, offer a wide and rich opportunity to speculative fiction authors.
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Shannon McDermott
If You Could Read Anything You Wanted To Read
I started to wonder what sort of stories the visitors here at Spec Faith consider ideal. I don’t think we’ll have a consensus.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
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
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Mark Carver
How Not To Promote Christian Speculative Stories
Want to keep Christian fantasy and science fiction from growing? Here are seven surefire methods.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Fantasy – Not Anybody’s Leftover Stale Bread
One of the unfortunate impressions about Christian fantasy that still lingers seems to be that all fantasy is the same, that it is derivative and stale.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Realm Makers 2016
For many of us, Realm Makers serves as a beacon, a tangible piece of evidence that speculative fiction is alive and well among Christians.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Shut De Door, Keep Out De Devil…
Back in the day, the demon hordes would be banished by a holy relic or a vague verse from the Bible. Now it seems that the power holding evil at bay is increasingly being named for what it truly is: the power of Jesus Christ.
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Mark Carver
In Which I Preached The Gospel To Donald Trump
And behold, I saw in my dream that it was Donald Trump. He had invited me to a meeting.
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E. Stephen Burnett
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.
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Mark Carver
Why We Don’t Need Christian Fantasy
We have good reasons for making fantastical stories by Christians, for Christians! Yet here are four reasons why we don’t.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Why Do We Need Christian Fantasy?
Should Christians enjoy stories outside or inside “Christian” subcultures? The answer is yes.
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E. Stephen Burnett
The Pox? How Delightful, The Pox!
The apocalyptic horror that the Black Death unleashed upon the world is incomprehensible in our super-sanitized modern times, even though our entertainment is rife with zombies and bioterrorism and innocuous viruses that end up wiping out most of the population.
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Mark Carver
Realm Makers Presenters, Part 5 – Mike Duran
Mike identifies closely with the horror genre. In fact, he’s addressed this topic in previous years at Realm Makers, has a guest post here at Spec Faith on the subject, and has a nonfiction book—
Christian Horror
—that explores the topic. This year he will teach a continuing session on “The Theology Of Speculative Fiction” and an elective on “The Crossover Christian Novelist.”
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Realm Makers Presenters, Part 4 – Agent Julie Gwinn
At present Julie is open to submissions. She “accepts queries in the following genres: Women’s Fiction, Romance (contemporary, historical, suspense, inspy. Amish) Spec Fiction and Fantasy, Mysteries and Suspense, Inspirational Fiction and Nonfiction, Historical Fiction, YA.”
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Why Are Batman and Superman Fighting?
Why are Batman and Superman fighting? Why did Man of Steel have to be so “dark” and “gritty”? Superman never kills!
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E. Stephen Burnett
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