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Beneath the Swirling Sky, Elizabeth Groening
Skate the Seeker by Jeff Ayers
The Red Door, Chris Solaas
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  • How Do We Discern Good and Bad ‘Magic’?
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New books for teens + young adults

Best for readers ages 13–18—and beyond!
The Looking-Glass Illusion, Sara Ella
The Eternity Gate, Katherine Briggs
Calligraphy Guild, R. M. Archer
young men’s · young women’s · all fiction
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  • How Reading Epic Fantasy Helps Me Be Brave
  • Engaging Fictional Violence in Our Real Worlds
  • Engaging That @&*% Our Stories Often Say

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Challenging novels for wise readers 18 and up.
The Looking-Glass Illusion, Sara Ella
Light of Eidon, Karen Hancock
Wandering, Loren G. Warnemuende
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  • Even If We Like Fantasy and Sci-Fi, We Can Still Practice Accidental Legalism
  • How God Uses Story Villains for Our Good
  • Sensual Scenes in Fiction Pose Unique Temptations for Women
  • Stories With Bad Ideas Can Still Help Us Grow
  • Engaging Fictional Violence in Our Real Worlds
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  • Let’s Not Excuse Movie and TV Porn For the Sake of ‘Redemptive’ Stories
  • Christians Can’t Consistently Blame Leftist Fiction While Pushing Our Own Propaganda

The Little Mermaid’s Live-Action Remake Fares Better Than Critics Forecast

Some new songs may flounder, but Ariel’s voice and Triton’s character redeem the 2023 Disney film. · Marian Jacobs
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R. L. Copple
As a young teen, R. L. Copple played in his own make-believe world, writing the stories and drawing the art for his own comics while experiencing the worlds of other authors like Tolkien, Lewis, Asimov, and Lester Del Ray. As an adult, after years of writing devotionally, he returned to the passion of his youth in order to combine his fantasy worlds and faith into the reality of the printed page. Since then, his imagination has given birth to The Reality Chronicles trilogy from Splashdown Books, and The Virtual Chronicles series, Ethereal Worlds Anthology, and How to Make an Ebook: Using Free Software from Ethereal Press, along with numerous short stories in various magazines.Learn more about R. L and his work at any of the following:Author Website, Author Blog, or Author Store.
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Visual Impact

Have we been trained over the last few years by movies to only like certain styles of story-telling? · R. L. Copple

The Meaning Of Life

It is the readers who decide what is quality fiction. It is readers who decide what will be classics or not. · R. L. Copple

Keeping It Real

Too often, I suspect, the subject of sex and marriage is avoided rather than fleshed out in most Christian fiction. This is not an effective counter to secular values on the subject regularly plastered in mainstream speculative fiction. · R. L. Copple

Marital Reality In Fiction

We don’t counter the excesses of secular morals about sex by ignoring sex, but by showing it in its proper context. · R. L. Copple

The Plowing Of Hades

When we speculate, it becomes a story. When God speculates, it becomes reality. · R. L. Copple

Agenda Fiction Is Alive and Well

The purpose of fiction is to experience the truth lived out in real life. Even if that real life is in the future, past, or a fantasy world. · R. L. Copple

Evangelizing Entertainment

I’d tend to evaluate the movie Noah like any speculative fiction story in relation to my faith: What picture of God and man is painted for me when taken as a whole? · R. L. Copple

Quality Is As Quality Does

Karen Watson suggests that people who scoff at Christian fiction probably haven’t read it lately. Well, have you? · R. L. Copple

What Does The Reader Say?

What does a Christian Speculative Fiction reader consider quality fiction? · R. L. Copple

Christian Fiction = ???

Christian Fiction = (faith * imagination)2 / audience. Too complicated? Watch R. L. Copple attempt to unravel it. · R. L. Copple

Christian Market A Fixed Point In Time?

Could the Doctor change history using book ratings? · R. L. Copple

Fantastic or Not?

Does a change in skin color represent the original character or create a continuity problem? Michael B. Jordan may find out in playing the Human Torch. · R. L. Copple

Redefining Creationism

The focus on evolution vs. creation distracts from what Genesis 1 actually teaches. · R. L. Copple

Manipulation

Where there’s money, there will be manipulators of any system. · R. L. Copple

The Bible: R-Rated?

Can the Bible be used to support mature content in Christian fiction? · R. L. Copple

Has Speculative Fiction Aborted Controversial Positions?

Can a speculative story interweave an issue like abortion into its plot effectively? Especially faith-based speculative fiction? · R. L. Copple

The Fear Factor

Evil is scary. But God is scarier. · R. L. Copple

The Horror Of It All: Journey Into Fear

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” ~Lovecraft · R. L. Copple

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

The Twelve Weeks Of Christmas

Christmas tends to be celebrated in the twelve weeks leading up to December 25th. · R. L. Copple

Ghostwriters In The Sky

That revelation changed how I viewed the book. I still love it, but some of the luster dulled in the feeling of having believed a lie. · R. L. Copple

Fictional Christianity

If it sounds right and they like the speaker, many will not blink an eye and drink the koolaid. · R. L. Copple

Science Of The Gaps

Science can help explain the how of things, it cannot theorize about why or who that is responsible. Yet people continue to use science to fill in the gaps of atheism and agnosticism. · R. L. Copple

Why God Created Us

The question of why God created us felt as unanswerable as “Can God make a rock so big He can’t lift it?” · R. L. Copple

God From The Story

Any author who has God as a character is always in danger of alienating readers by what God does or doesn’t do or say. · R. L. Copple

Theism, Reloaded

You can theorize on the fence, but you can’t live there. · R. L. Copple

A Moral Imperative

“You can’t legislate morality.” . . . the statement as written is categorically false. · R. L. Copple

How Storytelling Conveys Truth Better Than Non-fiction

I would suggest that what plagues much Christian fiction isn’t so much the desire to convey theological truths, but the mixing of non-fiction with fiction. Both forms are valid and have their place, but when they are mixed into a story, the result tends to be a story that isn’t engaging and/or sloppy/incomplete teaching. · R. L. Copple
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