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Spiritual Warfare Novels, Fantasy, and the Bible

Novelist Brian Godawa asks: “Spiritual warfare in the book of Revelation—what does it really look like?” · Brian Godawa

Freeing Ourselves from Tropes

Novelist S. E. M. Ishida: “Stories have the power to impact our perceptions about people’s gender, ethnicity, and more.” · S. E. M. Ishida

Take Away the Cheese but Keep the Integrity

Novelist Anna M. Aquino didn’t want to write “Christian literature.” Then she realized her faith will always drive her stories. · Anna M. Aquino

A Shadowy Argument for Christian Fiction

Shadows cast by stories can sometimes obscure the truth, but can Christian fiction paradoxically illuminate through shadow? · Brett Armstrong

When Christians Create Non-Christian Stories

Laura VanArendonk Baugh: “Some people might be surprised that a Greek myth told among Norse myth was written by a Christian.” · Laura VanArendonk Baugh

Imperfect Characters Inspire Us

Novelist Gillian Bronte Adams: “Imperfect characters are inspiring because they remind us of grace, modeling how to fall and rise again and how to keep on keeping on.” · Gillian Bronte Adams

When Women Weren’t People

Novelist Catherine Jones Payne: Sometimes evangelicals struggle to view women as fully human, in reality and in our stories. · Catherine Jones Payne

Which is Greater: Faith or Truth?

Biblical fiction novelist Brennan S. McPherson: “Without human imagination, faith, worship, and pleasing God are impossible.” · Brennan S. McPherson

Creating Literature that Leaps the Spiritual Divide

Sci-fi novelist Gray Rinehart: “What does it take to cross the spiritual divide effectively in a literary or artistic work?” · Gray Rinehart

Unraveling ‘Frayed’

A new short story and the memoir “I Was Saddam’s Son” brought Kerry Nietz back to his fictional future world ruled by sharia law. · Kerry Nietz