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Reading Choices: Isolation Or Insulation?

I don’t think isolation is an answer to the darkness of this world, and that approach leaves our culture without a witness. I’d also suggest that it’s wise to use insulation only as necessary. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Why I Put It Down

Here are my top eight reasons, in descending order, why I’m likely to put a book down and stop reading. · R. L. Copple

Winter Challenge Winner; Fiction Goals

Special thanks to all who participated in the 2013 Spec Faith 2013 End-of-the-Year Writing Challenge–those who entered, who voted in either or both first rounds, who gave feedback to the writers, and who were part of choosing our winner. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fairytales … Truer Than Real Life?

Fairytales promote a desire for . . . other. Not a desire for fire-breathing dragons to terrorize your city block, or a desire for fantastical battles to happen on your front lawn, but a desire for “something beyond.” · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Importance Of Reading: A Biased Opinion

Bias doesn’t mean you’re wrong, as Neil Gaiman shows in a (London) Guardian interview. · Yvonne Anderson

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

Expectations

So is it inevitable? If we love a series, will we always be let down because of our expectations? Or is it possible to hope and wait and wonder and anticipate and find the story ending is completely satisfying? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Some Reflections on Reading

Reading requires more education than simply learning what words mean. More to the point, I think that for Christians, some reflection on how we read is in order. To that end, I’d like to offer a few thoughts on reading from a Christian perspective. · L.B. Graham

Truth In Labeling

The world isn’t helped when Christian books further confusion about the faith. · Yvonne Anderson

The Continued Search For The Next C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s fiction did not spring to life in a vacuum, nor did it germinate exclusively from the fertile soil of his own imagination. Rather, he read widely, studied profusely, and spent hours discussing literature and theology with other scholars. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

An Answer To Readers

When the reviews came in, not only was my book being critiqued, but my editors, my publisher, and the entire industry was as well. · Patrick W. Carr

Books I’m Excited About – Captives By Jill Williamson

How Christianity fits into a dystopian fantasy is anything but pat. There is no one “right way,” no standard treatment, no prescribed formula. In Captives Jill Williamson has chosen to show Christianity primarily by way of contrast. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Where Are All The Speculative Titles Going?

Today’s post is going to be a departure from my “Last Son of Earth” series in order to bring you some highlights from the ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) in St. Louis. For the uninitiated, ICRS has been the primary […] · Christopher Miller

Readers And Writers Finding Each Other

For me, reading is similar to going to a nice restaurant. When I order my meal, do I get the item on the menu that I know I really like, or do I experiment, try something new? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Art And The Clive Staples Award, Continued

The Clive Staples Award is not a popularity contest. Consequently, no voter should choose a book he has not read! Our aim instead is to honor fiction well written. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speculative Fiction And Our Culture

How do we as Christians know what to do when we face troubling circumstances: disabilities, abortion, choices between life and death? All of that makes me think, What do we as Christians do in a world of super drones and string theory and cloning and possible pandemics and the push for euthanasia? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Books Versus The Screen

The vast majority of the best stories are within the pages of books, not on the little or big screen. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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