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SpecFaith Movie Missions: The Empire Strikes Back

I’m a “Star Wars” newbie and I still find Luke’s loss to Darth Vader one of the most gripping film scenes I’ve ever seen. · E. Stephen Burnett

The Heavens Declare

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” Ps. 19:1 · Mark Carver

Sex Scenes Clash With The Art Of ‘Jessica Jones’

The best parts of Marvel’s new superhero suspense story had nothing to do with frivolous nudity. · Frank Turk

Mayhem And Its Meaning, A Reprise

Why does mayhem play such an important role in speculative fiction? The clearest and best explanation is that these stories reveal the great struggle of the world—the struggle between the rebel Satan and God. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Receive Fantastical Stories With Thanksgiving

Four silent objections may get in the way of thanksgiving to God for fantastical stories. · E. Stephen Burnett

Story Evangelism: The Gospel Has Power In Realistic Fiction

Conversion scenes don’t automatically make good stories, but good stories can show the gospel at work. · Austin Gunderson

‘Human Beings Are A Disease’

Science fiction is packed with stories of leaders/aliens/robots/whatever trying to subdue humanity’s baser urges and make them docile, compliant, and soulless. Sometimes I wonder if that might not be a better option; drones don’t kill each other in the streets. · Mark Carver

Hope And Hopelessness In Speculative Fiction

When the imagination is separated from spiritual reality, it seems to stall on the bleak and the horrible. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Prove A Christian Fiction Genre Isn’t ‘Redemptive’

When people question a Christian fiction genre’s right to exist, I usually end up challenging them. · E. Stephen Burnett

Our Own Subgrene

Christians have created our own subgenre of speculative fiction: End Times fiction. I am going to state, right here at the beginning, that I have never really cared for it. · Shannon McDermott

The Art And Craft Of Glorifying God

The belief that “good art,” simply because it is good art, glorifies God, is a fallacy. Lots of artistic expression has a worldview contrary to God. Contrary, not neutral, and certainly not God glorifying. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Story Evangelism: Top Myths About Christian Novels

Many Christian novels do “evangelize” readers, but not always in the ways we assume. · E. Stephen Burnett

‘To Go Against The Church Is To Go Against God’

In Hollywood, the church is the ultimate “no-fun zone.” Cold, calculating, powerful, vigilant, a wet blanket on anything pleasurable. An institution to be rebelled against. · Mark Carver

The Truth And Story

What Lewis did was alter my understanding [of reality] by giving his own imaginative version that contradicted everything I’d thought before. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

R. J. Anderson on Story Evangelism

“Evangelism … takes place between believers meeting non-believers face to face, and interacting with them. … A book cannot take the place of a person.” · R. J. Anderson

Triumph or Havoc

The Scientific American published an interview with an astronomer who had written a book on how the existence of aliens affects religion. If, you know, aliens really do exist. · Shannon McDermott

It’s Not The Holiday You Think It Is

A corrupt church and priests interested in lining their own pockets weren’t concerned with trivialities such as what the Bible actually said, so salvation by faith alone was not a concept widely known. The idea of “no distinction [between believers] … but Christ is all and in all” was for all practical purposes unheard of. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Kaci Hill on Story Evangelism

Christian stories can be based on an expanded definition of “evangelism opportunities.” · Kaci Hill

Should Christian Stories Evangelize? Chapter 4

Evangelism is only part of the mission of God’s people, who live in a world that is about to change forever. · Austin Gunderson

Christians and The Can-Do Apocalypse

God is still God even if society goes down the toilet, and He doesn’t stop loving us or providing for us. · Mark Carver
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