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How To Deal With Sensitive Subjects (in Christian Spec Fiction)

Contemporary fantasy is swamped by material that runs completely adverse to traditional family values. This is a huge concern for parents and teachers. Young readers, especially, are impressionable to strange philosophies because they have not learned discernment. · Scott Appleton

Jesus, Thank You For Fantastical Stories

If we thank God for food, shouldn’t we also thank him for his good gifts like fantastical stories? · E. Stephen Burnett

The Christian Problem With Magic, Part 1

Where, exactly, does this leeriness in the Christian community toward magic and fantasy come from? From the Bible. · Shannon McDermott

Why Read Fantasy? The Power Of World Building

Every believer who reads fantasy has heard objections. Some of them have been ably handled by others on this blog. Yet you know something deep stirs in you when you read about dragons and fairies and other worlds where battles are fought and wrongs are righted. Maybe, though you’re not sure how to explain your reading choices when presented with these statements. · Jill Richardson

Exploring ‘The Hobbit’ Chapter 15: The Gathering Of The Clouds

Thanks to the book’s final grown-up tone, “The Battle of the Five Armies” may be better than the second “Hobbit” film. · E. Stephen Burnett

Does Scripture Let Mankind Go Interstellar?

How does space travel factor into the Christian worldview? · Mark Carver

Exploring ‘The Hobbit’ Chapter 14: Fire and Water

J.R.R. Tolkien’s images of a horrific dragon attack rivals today’s disaster-prone filmmakers. · E. Stephen Burnett

Review: Big Hero 6

“Big Hero 6” rides the wave of Disney’s second Renaissance. · Shannon McDermott

Review – A Time To Die

The government of the United States of the East, where this story takes place, is strict in enforcing (with Enforcers) certain laws of the land, most prominently that individuals must produce their clocks—a physical device that has been coded for them and counts down the years, days, hours, and seconds to their death. Anyone without a clock is branded a Radical and duly punished. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – Arena By Karen Hancock

Callie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Exploring ‘The Hobbit,’ Chapter 13: Not At Home

Today brings the final trailer for “The Hobbit” part 3. Ready to recall the book’s beauties? · E. Stephen Burnett

Deuteronomy 18 Witchcraft: What It Is and Isn’t

God does not ban all fictitious magic, but in Deut. 18 and other Scriptures he does condemn actual pagan idolatry. · E. Stephen Burnett

Who Cares About Extraterrestrials?

I certainly have no problem with people who write science fiction. I consider it to be a type of fantasy, though. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

‘There Are No Strings On Me’

Avengers: Age of Ultron’s tyrannical villain boasts of his own freedom. · E. Stephen Burnett

Twelve Reasons The ‘Left Behind’ Series Is Actually Awesome, Part 4

Three final reasons I still like the “Left Behind” novels: human journeys, fantastical events, and the return of Jesus. · E. Stephen Burnett

Twelve Reasons The ‘Left Behind’ Series Is Actually Awesome, Part 3

Three more reasons the Left Behind novels (not movie) work: cool covers, epic vision and diverse cast. · E. Stephen Burnett

Stories And Human Nature

What I find fascinating about these three movies is the theme that runs through them—unlikeable characters depicting marriage as psychological warfare; evil is real and we can’t get rid of it; and “good” removed leaves evil to fend for—and against—itself. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Twelve Reasons The ‘Left Behind’ Series Is Actually Awesome, Part 2

Three more reasons the Left Behind series is fine pulp-thriller fantasy: action, natural faith content, and a secular fanbase. · E. Stephen Burnett

Fantasy and Christianity

The rejection of fantasy causes one to limit God. · R. L. Copple

If It’s Fiction . . .

Truth in stories is a tricky thing. On the story-telling level, often referred to as realism, readers need to believe in what’s taking place. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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