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Horror Has A Face

Personally, I have found that horror I can relate to is often far more terrifying than anything my imagination can cook up. · Mark Carver

Hope And Hopelessness In Speculative Fiction

When the imagination is separated from spiritual reality, it seems to stall on the bleak and the horrible. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Art And Craft Of Glorifying God

The belief that “good art,” simply because it is good art, glorifies God, is a fallacy. Lots of artistic expression has a worldview contrary to God. Contrary, not neutral, and certainly not God glorifying. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Story Evangelism: Top Myths About Christian Novels

Many Christian novels do “evangelize” readers, but not always in the ways we assume. · E. Stephen Burnett

The Truth And Story

What Lewis did was alter my understanding [of reality] by giving his own imaginative version that contradicted everything I’d thought before. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Triumph or Havoc

The Scientific American published an interview with an astronomer who had written a book on how the existence of aliens affects religion. If, you know, aliens really do exist. · Shannon McDermott

Christians and The Can-Do Apocalypse

God is still God even if society goes down the toilet, and He doesn’t stop loving us or providing for us. · Mark Carver

A Whole New World

One of the most common pieces of writing advice is “Write what you know.” I took a big risk and wrote about something I didn’t know, and my eyes and mind were opened. · Mark Carver

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

Behold His Mighty Sword Of Wrath and Vengeance!

It is quite a terrifying idea to be chosen by God as His avenging angel on Earth, and it’s even more terrifying to be chosen by God for annihilation. · Mark Carver

Seven Final Challenges For Christian Movie Critics and Fans

Christian movies—are we sensitive to their fans and critics’ views? Suggest silly fixes? Assume “salvation or rededication” are our best themes? · E. Stephen Burnett

Unrealism In Art

Today I am going to share a list of unrealistic things in fiction. And by unrealistic, I mean in the absolute sense of “not like reality”. · Shannon McDermott

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

Are Heroes Passé?

Have our tastes in fiction moved past the good guy? Is there no interest in a character who wants to be heroic and works to be heroic and succeeds at being heroic? Must all our heroes be reluctant or all our protagonists be “bad guys”? Have we come to an end of good guy heroes? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Puppies V. Trufans: Civil War

“Turncoat” writer Steve Rzasa: In the Hugo Award fracas, neither “puppies” faction had a very Christian view of conflict. · Steve Rzasa

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

Throwing In The Towel

Despite what we see and read, a zombie apocalypse would not be fun. At all. · Mark Carver

Beauty And Function

So does beauty exist for beauty’s sake? Are evangelical Christians wrong to think art can and should do more than just be beautiful? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Faces Of Evil

If we know depraved humans hide or destroy faces in fiction, why do we not face this truth in reality? · E. Stephen Burnett
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