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Jill Williamson on Writing, ‘Darkness’ and Light In Fiction, Part 1

Jill Williamson discusses her writing, completing the ‘Blood of Kings’ trilogy, darkness and light in fiction, and what is ahead for herself and the Christian visionary field. NEW: The Portal Podcast — the complete interview in audio form. · E. Stephen Burnett

What’s The Difference In ‘Inspirational’ Stories?

Replace “follow your dreams by believing in yourself” with “follow your dreams by believing in Jesus”; does that make a story Christian? · E. Stephen Burnett

Everything Sacred

As I finished The Ale Boy’s Feast last week (review coming soon–and let me just say that despite what you may read in the Amazon reviews, this book is incredible), one of its premises took me back to something I […] · E. Stephen Burnett

The Auralia Thread: Reflections on A Vast Expanse

I joined the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour, run by our own fabulous Becky Miller, all the way back in January 2009. I missed my chance to read the first book, and the second book–Jeffrey Overstreet’s Cyndere’s Midnight–had […] · Rachel Starr Thomson

Guest Blog: Wayne Thomas Batson

Soul Searching Through Fantasy by Wayne Thomas Batson Life’s hard. I don’t care who you are or what tax bracket you’re in, you are going to get hurt. Scripture tells us that, as Christians, we’re not exempt from this broken, […] · Wayne Thomas Batson

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

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

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

Speculative Fiction and Transcendence

Greetings, Earthlings and other denizens of the internet-enabled universe. My name is Cathi-Lyn Dyck, and I am a highly unorthodox individual. I’m a freelance editor. I also write a huge variety of things. But in terms of storytelling, my keyboard […] · C.L. Dyck

Learning From Bad Books, Part 6

People yelled at me a lot two summers ago for fault-finding with a popular Christian book I had not, technically, read myself. Yet it’s odd how many people never denied my perceptions of this book, which were based on negative […] · E. Stephen Burnett
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