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The Beauty of Short Horror Films

Short horror films use a bare bones approach to storytelling to craft films to send chills down your spine. · Parker J. Cole

What Tolkien Taught About Fighting Evil

Some of the most epic battles of fantasy fiction were penned by J. R. R. Tolkien. So what did Tolkien show us in his fiction about fighting Evil? · Travis Perry

Stargate SG-1 Season One–Making Weak Ideas Into a Better Story

Stargate SG-1 is new for me. I didn’t think the Stargate movie was great–this post details how the series started off with weak ideas but made good stories anyway. · Travis Perry

Prospect: Why I Like Nobledark or Grimbright Better than Cheerful and Corrupt

Prospect is a movie I’d recommend over Rim of the World. I both review Prospect and say why I like its type of tale better. · Travis Perry

Shields Among Us

Our “shields” can be necessary but also harmful, guarding us from enemies but also our own good. · Laura VanArendonk Baugh

How ‘It: Chapter Two’ Defeats Its Devilish Clown

“We must realize that our enemy is just a clown. He’s a loser.” · Daniel Whyte IV

Are We Part of the Problem?

What is our responsibility as authors? Do we share any of the blame if our words put ideas into people’s heads or ignite the brittle underbrush that already exists in depraved minds and is just waiting for the spark? · Mark Carver

From the Archives: How Dark is Too Dark?

How dark is too dark? Is it permissible to include horrific and explicit elements in a story intended for the Christian market? · Mark Carver

Against the Tragic Villain Backstory

I’m mostly against the tragic villain backstory as a storytelling device. Let me tell you why. · Travis Perry

What Does it Mean for a Story to be “Christian”?

There are at lease nine different ways to define a story’s relationship or lack thereof to Christianity (we’re counting 🙂 ). And that’s not all. · Travis Perry

Bad Seed

Why are the origins of evil so fascinating? Why do we crave stories about corruption? · Mark Carver

Why Batman Can’t Save Gotham

What Gotham needs is not a dark knight, but a hero who operates by a different code. · Daniel Whyte IV

Truth Or Reality In Fantasy

We are drawn to the truth, to the clear explanation that there is a good ruler, a right way, a guardian-king, and we can side with him. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Lesser of Two Evils?

Evil cannot defeat evil; it can only replace it. · Mark Carver

The Nature of the Beast

How does the idea of monsters fit into the Christian walk? · Mark Carver

Monsters and the Heroes Who Fight Them

Thriller novelist Randall Allen Dunn: “Heroes who fight monsters will stop at nothing. That’s why I love them.” · Randall Allen Dunn

Are We Actually More Like the Villain Than the Hero?

Do we overlook something when thinking about stories? Namely, which archetype falls closer to us, the readers, on the heroic-to-villainous spectrum? · Zac Totah

95 Theses for Christian Fiction Reformation, part 1

500 years ago, God’s church needed reformation. Now Christian fiction needs reforming. · E. Stephen Burnett

Guns. Lots of Guns.

Guns are fun to shoot in real life and fun to watch on-screen. But they are just a tool. · Mark Carver
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