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‘Journey to Bethlehem’ Gets Lost on Its Way

Given the film’s wildly altered and modernized storyline, I can’t bring myself to give Journey to Bethlehem the support I usually give biblical fiction and musicals. · Marian Jacobs
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Best known for her aspirations as an epic fantasy author, Becky is the sole remaining founding member of Speculative Faith. Besides contributing weekly articles here, she blogs Monday through Friday at A Christian Worldview of Fiction. She works as a freelance writer and editor and posts writing tips as well as information about her editing services at Rewrite, Reword, Rework.
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2015 Autumn Writing Challenge Finalists

All that’s left is to select the winner. In this round you’ll choose from these entries and vote in the poll at the end of this post for one entry you think is best. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Evaluation Phase: 2015 Spec Faith Autumn Writing Challenge

We want those “last minute” entries to have a fair shot at moving on to the finals, so please take time to read and give your feedback to those stories as well. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

2015 Autumn Writing Challenge

Here it is, the end of September, with the autumn equinox bearing down upon us, and we haven’t had our second 2015 writing challenge yet. So it’s time! · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – Knife By R. J. Anderson

Forget everything you think you know about faeries. . . . Creatures full of magic and whimsy? Not in the Oakenwyld. Not anymore. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Does Anybody Work In Speculative Fiction?

Maybe “ordinary” doesn’t make for a good story. Still, I’d think within stories about the exciting and the exceptional, there need to be those who hold down the fort, who keep the supply lines coming through, who make sure the soldiers have shoes. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Are Heroes Passé?

Have our tastes in fiction moved past the good guy? Is there no interest in a character who wants to be heroic and works to be heroic and succeeds at being heroic? Must all our heroes be reluctant or all our protagonists be “bad guys”? Have we come to an end of good guy heroes? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Beauty And Function

So does beauty exist for beauty’s sake? Are evangelical Christians wrong to think art can and should do more than just be beautiful? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Future Of Christian Speculative Fiction

We’re at a crossroads, I believe. Are Christian speculative stories going to speak to our culture, or not? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Animals And Christian Speculative Fiction

In short, the Bible is “animal friendly” in that humankind, as rulers, are to be benevolent in the exercise of our authority. But clearly, humans and animals are not equal. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – Draven’s Light By Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Drums summon the chieftain’s powerful son to slay a man in cold blood and thereby earn his place among the warriors. But instead of glory, he earns the name Draven, “Coward.” · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Realm Makers – 2015

Realm Makers, a conference for speculative writers with a Christian worldview, is still in its infancy. This year marks only the third annual event. But clearly, word is out. Enrollment in 2015 has doubled. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – Space Drifters By Paul Regnier

Captain Starcrost is not having the carefree, adventurous life of a star pilot promised in all the space academy brochures. He’s broke, his star freighter is in dire need of repair, and there’s a bounty on his head. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speculative Worlds And Christian Tenets

What are some of those Christian beliefs that would subvert our culture today? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Why I Liked Jurassic World

Jurassic World was a better than expected rendition of this dinosaur science fiction series. Kudos to the writers, actors, directors, and of course the incredible special effects teams. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – 150 Years Old

If only I’d understood as a child that the story wasn’t supposed to make sense, maybe I would have liked it better. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Culture Shifts And The Christian Writer

Is it OK for Christian novelists to write to other Christians or to general market readers “purely for entertainment”? Or should we aim to make an eternal difference through what we write? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Exploring The Light

What is the point of departure between those who read and write horror and those who don’t? From my perspective, the answer is “focus.” · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Continuing The Horror Conversation

Paul’s counter to the legalistic approach was for believers to readjust our focus, to explore, if you will, the things above. Which is why I generally ask in these discussions about horror, why we believers aren’t doing more in our fiction to show the light—God’s light and truth. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Remembering The Soldiers Who Died

It doesn’t seem to me that speculative stories are short on wars, and therefore people serving the rest of their culture or nation or species by marching into danger and possible death. What novels actually show beloved characters dying as part of their commitment to fight for right? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix – Cloak Of The Light By Chuck Black

What if…there was a world beyond our vision, a world just fingertips beyond our reach? What if…our world wasn’t beyond their influence? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Books You Should Consider Nominating For The Clive Staples Award

This list is just a starter. The goal, of course, is to find the best of the best, so we’re looking for you to nominate/vote on the CSA survey for three books you believe are a cut above the rest. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – Heir Of Hope By Morgan Busse

All of it, gone. Caleb staggered against the wall inside the dark back rooms of the tavern, the shock at last catching up to him. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Books I’ve Tried To Read And Can’t Get Into

Have you started books you haven’t finished? Do you know what made you stop reading? Do you try and try again until you get into a book? Have you persisted with some book and discovered it’s a keeper, one you’re glad you read and would recommend to others? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix – Jupiter Winds By C. J. Darlington

In 2160, a teenager becomes the bait to capture her missing revolutionary parents she thinks are long dead. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Resurgence Of Fantasy

Christian fantasy, late to the prom with dystopian and post-apocalyptic fantasy, seems primed to take advantage of this new resurgence of classic fantasy. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Use What You Know

Like so much else about fiction, immersion into a fantasy world is as much a result of the readers’ imagination as it is the writer’s execution. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Stories With Romance Or Stories With Love?

Could it be that our current Christian speculative fiction has focused so much on the kind of love the world recognizes that we are neglecting the kind of love the Bible extols? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Introducing Gillian Bronte Adams

Texas born and bred, Gillian Adam’s writing journey started when she was quite young. As the baby of her family, she emulated her older sister who “was always writing something.” · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Culture Wars And Speculative Fiction

Are speculative fiction writers creating worlds that reflect disagreements and opposing factions representative of societal struggles? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Great Secondary Characters

Great secondary characters are larger than life. The story is not about them really, but they add so much, they make the story so much richer, that they become as memorable as the protagonist. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What’s In A Book Cover

Clearly some readers are making reading decisions based on covers. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Violence In Speculative Literature

Speculative fiction is built upon a violent struggle. The goal is never to learn to co-exist with evil or to just learn to get along or to agree to disagree. Instead, two opposing forces, two incompatible worldviews square off. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

So Many Books

I’m more convinced than ever that we here at Spec Faith need your eyes and ears. What books do you know about that have recently become available? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix – Curse Bearer By Rebecca P. Minor

An epic tale of curses and miracles, where headstrong ignorance creates bondage, and the desire to serve offers freedom. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Finding Good Books

Should we be content to let traditional publishers narrow their offerings while we scramble on our own to find the books we like—books we hope are out there but can’t know for sure if we’ll find? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – I Am Ocilla By Diane M. Graham

I am Ocilla. This is my story. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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