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Gender In Fiction: The Implication Of Failure

Are there still majority cultural ideas surrounding gender that can and should define a character? Or is the best plan to include as few gender specific references, or identifying markers, as possible? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Symbolic Nature of Sci-fi Apocalyptic Disaster Films

The symbolic nature of apocalyptic sci-fi movies point to an underlying thread of biblical precepts. · Parker J. Cole

The Messages of Black Horror Films

Black horror films have been around for decades with their popularity spawning about every twenty years. Black horror films have a dual purpose – to tell a story and to address a social issue. · Parker J. Cole

The Silent Majority Or The Minority Underground

For years, Conservation voters, including many Christians, were known as the “silent majority.” But certainly Christians didn’t start out in a world in which they were the majority. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speculative Fiction And Contemporary Culture, Part 2

How can writers speak into today’s troubled culture, whether dealing with the political divide, racial unrest, dealing with a pandemic, economic concerns, or what have you? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speculative Fiction And Contemporary Culture

Should writers change and speak into the culture through our writing, through our stories? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Step by Step Into Dystopia

Recent personal events remind me that dystopia doesn’t have to come via dictatorship. It can come gradually, step by step… · Travis Perry

Free Original Storyworld Ideas, Part 2: Three Coronavirus Story Settings

Let’s say you wanted to write a story about Coronavirus but weren’t sure where to start. This post shares three original story setting ideas! · Travis Perry

Sending The Wrong Message

I’ve heard a number of Christian leaders speak to the topic. I’ve been pleased with some, disappointed in others, and surprised at those who have remained silent. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speak Lord, For Your Servant Is Listening

Someone has to be pretty blind not to see parallels between the world today and the world of the ancient Jews. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

My Perspective—Covid-19

From what I see, the virus and its effects are on the mind of most people. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

God Or Satan?

It’s almost become a politically incorrect thing among Christians to say that God is a Judge, that He exercises justice against people. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

A Look At Fatalism and a Killer Virus in Twelve Monkeys

This posts dives into the film and TV series Twelve Monkeys and its predecessors and asks what we can learn from this story and the Bible about pandemics and fate. · Travis Perry

Live from the Lockdown

How would fictional characters fare in these uncertain times? Let’s check in on some of them. · Mark Carver

The Virus Thing

Little did I realize that The Virus Thing would soon have an effect here and around the globe in a way that feels like it came from the pages of Williamson’s Thirst. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Hard Time

As with any real life/entertainment contrast, the real world of incarceration doesn’t quite match up with what we see on screen when it comes to prisons and jails. · Mark Carver

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

Pestilence and Plague

It’s impossible not to think about the fictionalized treatment of epidemics when we are bombarded by hourly news updates about the real thing. · Mark Carver

2020 Science Fiction Predictions

Science fiction in many forms laid down predictions for what the year 2020 would bring. What did they get wrong? What’s close to being right? · Travis Perry

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
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