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‘Nothing But A Black Puerility’

An evil explored in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra explains politicians’ fits and challenges Disney “backstory” attempts. · E. Stephen Burnett

More Middle-earth, and Even More Narnia?

“The Hobbit” part 2 gets another trailer, and the Narnia film series gets a new producer. · E. Stephen Burnett

Fantastic Television

“Legend of Korra” is back and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” debuts tonight; will you watch? · E. Stephen Burnett

This Is Fiction Legalism

Obvious legalism is not the only legalism, and is discerned based on Scripture, not feelings or rules. · E. Stephen Burnett

Attack Of The ‘Cast A Woman Doctor’ Critics

Why are media elites (but not most fans) upset that “Doctor Who” did not cast a woman as the Twelfth Doctor? · E. Stephen Burnett

About Time

Our human yearning for a lifetime do-over is probably one reason for our fascination with time manipulation. · Yvonne Anderson

The Heart Of Speculative Fiction Is Not Weird

These stories, some believe and others may assume, are for the few, the proud, the niche, and not for everyone. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

No Pressure

Writers live on the edge of expectation. Unpublished authors live with the expectation of editors for crisp writing, fresh stories, yet ones that aren’t so far “out there” that readers will not want to go on the reading journey with them. The expectation is that writers will find that razor thin balance between the comfortably familiar and the inventively original. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Three Scriptural Cautions Against Self-Publishing

Self-publication could distract from God and chief ends, bypass the Church Body working together, and sacrifice team-built excellence. · E. Stephen Burnett

Star Trek Into Fun Yet Generic and Derivative Darkness

The latest “Star Trek” film has great cast, visuals, and action. But the story ends up derivative, the worldview one of “distractism,” and the titular “darkness” generic and dull. · E. Stephen Burnett

Relics, Relics, Relics

Behold the Christian MacGuffin, the Mushi: a quasi-Biblical object with Surprising Supernatural Powers for plot purposes. · E. Stephen Burnett

Surprise! Wrong Villain

“We create our own demons,” Tony Stark concludes in Iron Man 3. Very true, but subversion can only go so far. We also fight actual demons and overt villains. · E. Stephen Burnett

John Bunyan – This Is No Tall Tale

We think of speculative fiction as a fairly new art form. After all, who ever heard of anyone writing about fantasy worlds and that sort of thing in, say, the 17th century? · Yvonne Anderson

“I Don’t Read Fiction,” She Said, Disapproving.

Apparently the church connection reassured her that I was safe to talk to. But to make sure we’d have no misunderstandings, she told me with self-righteous conviction, “I don’t read fiction.” · Yvonne Anderson

Resurrection, Part 3: We Are Risen; We Will Rise

Christ is risen. Next comes a truth echoed by heroes such as The Iron Giant and Iron Man: human resurrection, which comes in at least two stages. · E. Stephen Burnett

How Can They Hear?

A common complaint with Christian fiction is that it’s too preachy. Personally, I’m more apt to be dissatisfied because it’s not preachy enough. · Yvonne Anderson

Fiction Christians From Another Planet! VII: Attack Of The Spiritoids

From the misquote “you are a soul, you have a body,” to spiritual-warfare “only unseen realities matter” assumptions, to end-times evacuation-from-Earth tropes, Gnostic spiritoids infect some Christian fiction. · E. Stephen Burnett

Where Are All The Superheroes?

From the halls of Odin to the exploits of Beowulf, the graphic-art mythos of Superman, the school day victories of colorful Power Rangers—why are superheros so super? · Yvonne Anderson
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