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The Foolishness Of God

1 Corinthians 1:25: “For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength” (NIV). · Mark Carver

What About Christian Speculative Movies?

Speculative fiction by Christians is not uncommon. Readers can find stories about dragons and wizards, about characters trying to survive in a dystopian world, about a clone who escapes the laboratory, about the people in a new fairy world, about space captains, about space aliens, about vampires, about . . . well, just about anything speculative you can imagine. But how will these stories make it to the big screen? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Six Shallow Criticisms Of Christian Movies

Critics might retire these clichéd lines so we can help Christian creativity mature. · E. Stephen Burnett

How To Fix Christian Fiction: More Christianity

Christian fiction really can be terrible, and there’s only one cure: more Christianity. · E. Stephen Burnett

Is God Out There?

I suspect that if a project like this was launched, its managers would make a concerted effort to screen out anyone with religious beliefs, for the purposes of conflict avoidance but more importantly for the simple fact that the human heart naturally shuns God. · Mark Carver

Fiction Friday – Wickers Bog By Mike Duran

Myth and mystery collide in this short, 34-page tale of Southern Gothic horror. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Dun Dun Dun Dun Da-Dun Dun Da-Dun…

Hitler, and the whole Nazi Reich, were the perfect bad guys. Homogeneous (by their own efforts), sharply dressed in intimidating uniforms, a very eye-catching logo and distinct greeting gesture (quite the opposite of “Live Long and Prosper”), and a coldly mechanical and unstoppable war machine bent on global domination *evil laugh.* You can’t write a better fictitious villain or enemy if you tried. · Mark Carver

What’s On Your TBR List For 2017?

Goodreads goals abound, as we anticipate with bright-eyed eagerness the bookish possibilities. All the worlds to explore, characters to meet, adventures to embark upon. What could better? · Zac Totah

C.S. Lewis Redeemed Myths, and So Should We

Redemption of myths fulfills the Bible’s command to “take every thought captive.” · Elijah David

Presenting The Gospel Through Story

Sharing the Gospel need not take place in traditional ways, nor need it be overt. Why? This is where the power of story enters the picture. · Zac Totah

On The Origin Of Mythic Orbits and Genre Short Stories

Short stories are often used to promote feature-length novels, but Travis Perry did something different in “Mythic Orbits.” · Travis Perry

The Nightmare Of Christmas

The idealized Western Christmas is a time of jingling bells, snow (unless you live in the South with Christmas temperatures regularly in the 50s and 60s), Christmas trees, lavishly decorated homes, presents spilling out into the hallway, and a seemingly endless barrage of Christmas parties. And of course, the stories. Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, The Night Before Christmas, The Tin Soldier, A Christmas Carol, and many more. However, in many other countries, Christmas tales take quite a sinister turn. · Mark Carver

Sci-fi and Fantasy Let Us Explore

Wrapping your mind around the size of the universe, and our comparatively tiny place in it, gives you a new perspective and appreciation. Science fiction and fantasy do the same thing, on a different scale. · Zac Totah

Fiction Friday: “Pearla’s First Christmas”

“Pearla’s First Christmas” is a short story, written from the point of view of one of the characters in the Angel Eyes trilogy, and is available as a free download from author Shannon Dittemore. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Christmas Story: The First Epic Tale

Many stories, whether written from secular or Christian worldviews, point us back to the story of Christ, implicitly or explicitly, by design or by accident. · Zac Totah

Review: The Sword Of Six Worlds By Matt Mikalatos

Validus Smith and her best friend Alex Shields know something is seriously wrong when their substitute teacher takes the side of the class bully. When he changes into a creature with fangs and tries to attack Validus, they escape by following two new students through a hole into a different world—one in which animals talk. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Well, When You Say It Like That…

“A technician’s job is to find glitches, so he sees glitches. Your job is to find the enemy, so you see the enemy. Locals believe in spirits, so they see spirits. Everyone’s biased.” · Mark Carver

The Fantasy Itch: Gettin’ To Be THAT Time Of Year

Ah, yes, I’m definitely ready to settle down with a good fantasy. It’s that time of year! Last year I read Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, first in the Mistborn Trilogy (which, I learned, is actually a five book series). I’m thinking this year I should finish out the rest, starting with The Well of Ascension. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Why My Novel Bellanok Stars A Christian Pastor

Author Ralene Burke found a Christian pastor a perfect hero for her debut fantasy novel, Bellanok. · Ralene Burke

We Were In The Neighborhood…

What would I do if aliens showed up? How would I react? Would it shake me to the core of my faith, like it did for the hapless puritan in Paul? Would it revive my faith, like it did for Mel Gibson in Signs? Would it encourage me to pull out my old Simon game and use the flashing lights and cool synthesized notes to try and communicate ala Close Encounters of the Third Kind? · Mark Carver
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