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On Our New Podcast Episode: We Didn’t Watch ‘The Witcher’ So We Hired a Friend Who Did

We interviewed Jason Morehead, who had some concerns about Netflix’s “mature” fantasy drama “The Witcher.” · E. Stephen Burnett

My Time in Calormen

I wind up talking about personal experience in the Middle East–and partially defending how C.S. Lewis portrayed Calormen. · Travis Perry

The Joker in Film: A Case Study in Evil

Joker, the movie, has 11 Oscar nominations. How does it compare with other portrayals of the Joker in film? Which is a “greater evil” and what real-world evil people are they most like? · Travis Perry

What’s the Deal with the Devil: Conclusion and a Call to Action

What’s the conclusion of this series? The spiritual war is real; it’s about ideas; it’s in our entertainment. And I say we need to fight! · Travis Perry

The Spiritual War Through Culture: Modern Entertainment

Does modern entertainment, including speculative fiction, have any connection to the messages Satan is trying to sell to our culture? If so, what should we do about it? · Travis Perry

Do You Believe?

what kind of miracle would it take for people these days to truly believe? · Mark Carver

These Are the Top Ten Most-Read SpecFaith Articles in 2019

From “Game of Thrones” critiques to YA Twitter, writing challenges, and Ted Chiang (again?), here are the top-read SpecFaith articles in 2019. · E. Stephen Burnett

What Was God Thinking?

We humans, as rational beings, want everything to make sense. It’s frustrating that such “nonsense” winds up being true. · Mark Carver

Primary Colors And Their Use

Writing can be equated with the use of primary colors. J. R. R. Tolkien used that metaphor, anyway, when he explained his thoughts about fantasy. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Redeem Your Thanksgiving (Day of the Action of Thanks)

Thanksgiving Day began as a day set aside to thank God–it’s become many other things since then. Let’s redeem our Thanksgiving by remembering the overt and literal action of prayerful thanking. · Travis Perry

The Unwanted Passenger

No matter where people go in this universe, they bring along an unwanted passenger: their own sin natures. · Mark Carver

Revealed: Here’s the Little Trap I Set to Expose Rotten Tomatoes

When humans like or dislike stories based on many complex factors, you can’t just call a film “fresh” or “rotten.” · E. Stephen Burnett

The Deal with the Devil

The trope of making a deal with the Devil has been around longer than Goethe’s Faust. What’s good about the use of this trope? What’s Biblical? And how can we apply what the Bible says to craft a more original take on making a deal with Satan? · Travis Perry

Are We There Yet?

When does the future arrive? · Mark Carver

Why We Want Warner Brothers to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut of ‘Justice League’

The original Justice League movie was okay, but we’ve since learned the planned epic super-film was nerfed by skittish producers. · E. Stephen Burnett

Alien God of the Christian Tribulation

What if the Tribulation that futurists like me see in the book of Revelation takes place? And what if the Antichrist claims aliens are invading the Earth and he’s only resisting them…? (And why would I want to write a story like that?) · Travis Perry

Redeem Your Halloween

Answers in Genesis took a look at Halloween–this article looks over their idea that Halloween may originate in the Flood of Noah’s time. While I disagree, they did make statements about Halloween worthy of “holding fast to.” · Travis Perry

What is Truly Scary?

At the root of all fear is the desperate unwillingness to lose something precious, the ultimate fear being the fear of losing one’s life or the lives of loved ones. · Mark Carver

Messin’ With Time

Beyond all my complaints about the time change, I find time an interesting topic, a part of world building, actually, in speculative stories. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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