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Don’t Ditch Santa, Part 1

Scripture and history prove pagans don’t own Santa. The early Church does. · Timothy Stone

Ghostwriters In The Sky

That revelation changed how I viewed the book. I still love it, but some of the luster dulled in the feeling of having believed a lie. · R. L. Copple

‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 12: Inside Information

Two hundred pages into the story, Bilbo Baggins finally “burglarizes” the lair of Smaug the Terrible. · E. Stephen Burnett

In Which You Eavesdrop on A Conversation With Myself

Speculative fiction is sometimes defined as a fanciful story based upon a what-if scenario. What if there was intelligent life on other planets? What if mankind could travel through time? What if dragons were real? Of course all fiction involves […] · Yvonne Anderson

Fictional Christianity

If it sounds right and they like the speaker, many will not blink an eye and drink the koolaid. · R. L. Copple

Science Of The Gaps

Science can help explain the how of things, it cannot theorize about why or who that is responsible. Yet people continue to use science to fill in the gaps of atheism and agnosticism. · R. L. Copple

‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 10: A Warm Welcome

Tolkien tests his modified genre’s limits when The Hobbit’s road trip turns into political intrigue and even archetype parody. · E. Stephen Burnett

For The Love Of God

I met the Lord the summer I was sixteen. A November or two later, I visited a local Baptist church for a Thanksgiving Eve service. That was forty years ago, and I no longer remember how I came to be […] · Yvonne Anderson

Why God Created Us

The question of why God created us felt as unanswerable as “Can God make a rock so big He can’t lift it?” · R. L. Copple

‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 9: Barrels Out Of Bond

You’ll see Bilbo and the Dwarves escape in the new film version, yet Tolkien’s escape is much less visible. · E. Stephen Burnett

God From The Story

Any author who has God as a character is always in danger of alienating readers by what God does or doesn’t do or say. · R. L. Copple

‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 8: Flies and Spiders

In which the Dwarves’ company enters a fantasy forest corrupted by evil. · E. Stephen Burnett

Theism, Reloaded

You can theorize on the fence, but you can’t live there. · R. L. Copple

The Words Of C. S. Lewis

On November 22, fifty years ago, C. S. Lewis passed away. While we at Spec Faith certainly have never ignored this great Christian thinker, apologist, and speculative writer, it still seems appropriate to focus on him this month as a tribute. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 7: Queer Lodgings

Tolkien introduces Beorn the non-“were-bear,” a creature of vague loyalties and mixed methods. · E. Stephen Burnett

A Moral Imperative

“You can’t legislate morality.” . . . the statement as written is categorically false. · R. L. Copple

Finding Books

Most of us don’t choose our stories based on what’s good for us. That smacks too much like taking our medicine or eating our vegetables. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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