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Can Christians Write Novels Without Evil?

Our choices are to accept the Bible as the authoritative, infallible, inerrant Word, including its violence, or not. I for one choose the former and think it is high time we quit making excuses for it. · Marc Schooley

Salvaging Scripture For Our Own Story Parts

If human authors’ intentions and genre guidelines are worth respect from readers, then surely God as Author, His intentions and reading Scripture rightly, are all worth even more. Yet some novels’ flagrant misuse of Scripture and Biblical concepts, using only scraps of it to fit sporadically into another story, is dubious. · E. Stephen Burnett

The ‘priesthood Of Artists’ and Godly Criticism

In which the author copies a previous lengthy comment and fashions it into the column it should have been, about problems with “priesthood of artists” notions. Last week I mini-ranted about Derek Webb’s interview. A lot of bloggers have been […] · E. Stephen Burnett

Observations: Speculating Faith

In the interest of a prelude, before Christmas I wrote a piece called Inherently Religious, in which I argued that some events and symbolism are by nature religious, and, therefore, they cannot properly be used in any other way – […] · Kaci Hill

Artist ‘priests,’ God-centered Definitions and More

You know those infamous “clip shows” television sitcoms sometimes have, perhaps at the end of a season when the financial and ideas budgets are both running low? This will not be like that. Rather I present here a roundup of […] · E. Stephen Burnett

Redeeming Santa Legends For Delighting In Grace

At Christmas, when it comes to Santa and other issues, do reflexive “we’re to be different” lines jump to our minds? We need to balance that half-truth with enjoyment of God’s good gifts — including celebrating holidays and feasting, which Scripture does support, for God’s glory. · E. Stephen Burnett

Defeating Man-Centered Monsters With Greater Stories

For the Christian, the choice seems easy between God-rejecting and God-centered stories. But if I had to choose between stories that ignore God and those that (despite frequent hints of God-centeredness) include Him wrongly, I must admit I would prefer the God-ignoring ones. · E. Stephen Burnett

Fighting Man-Centered Monsters In Christian Fantasy

Stories like “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” that make a Christ-figure a means to fulfilling one’s destiny are little better than atheism. · E. Stephen Burnett

How Do We Love A Fiction Legalist? Part 3

Three ways to love a fiction “legalist” — that is, a Christian who opposes fantasy or fiction, or more often simply considers them pointless, useless and unnecessary to Godward growth. · E. Stephen Burnett

How Do We Love A Fiction Legalist? Part 2

Two weeks ago, reader Bethany asked, quite fairly, how come I used the word “legalist” to describe Christians who oppose either a certain fantasy series, like Harry Potter, or all fiction. That made me grateful I started this series saying […] · E. Stephen Burnett

How Do We Love A Fiction Legalist? Part 1

How can we best love and reason with Christian family members who fear the stories we enjoy? · E. Stephen Burnett

‘Dawn Treader’ Film May Hit Story Sandbars, Part 3

Until a few hours ago today, an online interview was available with Mark Johnson, a lookalike of Justin Hammer (from Iron Man 2) and also producer of the Narnia films. Aslan’sCountry.com has since removed the interview text. (But guess who […] · E. Stephen Burnett

‘Dawn Treader’ Film May Hit Story Sandbars, Part 2

This time I’ll begin with positive news: this photo from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader film. Yes, for those familiar with the book, it’s a classic image: Eustace, now finally sobered, turned into a dragon because of his existing […] · E. Stephen Burnett

‘Dawn Treader’ Film May Hit Story Sandbars, Part 1

First Disney dropped distributing the Chronicles of Narnia film franchise. Then Fox picked it up. Then it seemed that producer Walden Media’s new director, Michael Apted, might bring a better story adaptation. But a leaked script emerged that included some […] · E. Stephen Burnett
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