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147. Why Can Christians Celebrate Stories about Merlin and King Arthur? | with Robert Treskillard
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Lorehaven helps Christian fans explore fantastical stories for Christ’s glory: fantasy, science fiction, and beyond. Articles, the library, reviews, podcasts, gifts, and the Lorehaven Guild community help fans discern and enjoy the best Christian-made fantastical stories, applying their meanings to the real world Jesus Christ calls us to serve. Subscribe free to get any updates you choose and to access the Lorehaven Guild.
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Lorehaven Begins, Readers Respond

Your response to our news about Lorehaven magazine has been incredible.
E. Stephen Burnett on Aug 3, 2017
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SpecFaith broke the news last week: with our friends from Splickety Publishing Group, we’ve started a new free webzine. It will release this autumn. It will reach out to new fans of Christian-made fantastic-genre novels by building reading groups. It’s called Lorehaven.

For those of you reading SpecFaith for the first time, welcome to the mission!

For those of you already awaiting our debut issue: it’s rapidly underway, so pray for us!

Your response to the Lorehaven magazine news has been incredible: across reality, email subscriptions, and social network shares. It’s overwhelming yet encouraging to see.

Of course, you can subscribe to Lorehaven updates here. Or follow Lorehaven on Facebook, and @Lorehaven on Twitter.

So it begins. #Lorehaven #RealmMakers2017 @SplicketyPubGr @SpecFaith

— Lorehaven (@Lorehaven) July 28, 2017

Well done, guys. Looking forward to this new publication in the speculative fiction space.

— Ian Acheson (@achesonian) July 28, 2017

@Lorehaven Super excited about this new adventure!

— Sarah Rosinski (@Sarah_Rosinski) July 28, 2017

Interesting: @Lorehaven, a new zine about “Christian-made fantastic stories” to encourage reading groups. https://t.co/rZ08UILLSo pic.twitter.com/GafgU95WTV

— Gray Rinehart (@GrayRinehart) July 28, 2017

Very excited about this venture!

— Reneé Le Vine

A Christian speculative fiction magazine? From @SpecFaith and @SplicketyMag? TELL US MORE. https://t.co/M40Yqey1vX

— Saving The Game (@SavingTheGame) July 31, 2017

Really excited about @Lorehaven. This is much needed. Exciting future. Check it out: https://t.co/I2JCKXbW50 pic.twitter.com/ii7ObxVPAC

— Peter (@PeterWilliam117) August 2, 2017

I’m excited to see where Lorehaven goes!
— Tiger Hebert

About Lorehaven: Lorehaven helps Christian fans find truth in fantastic stories. Free webzines and a web-based community support book clubs with flash reviews, articles, and news about Christian fantasy, science fiction, and other speculative novels. Lorehaven launches autumn 2017. Visit Lorehaven.com.

E. Stephen Burnett
E. Stephen Burnett creates sci-fi and fantasy novels as well as nonfiction, exploring fantastical stories for God’s glory as publisher of Lorehaven.com and cohost of the Fantastical Truth podcast. As the oldest of six, he enjoys connecting with his homeschool roots by speaking at conferences for Christian families and creators. Stephen is coauthor of The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ from New Growth Press (2020, with Ted Turnau and Dr. Jared Moore). Stephen and his wife, Lacy, live in the Austin area, where they help with foster parenting and serve as members of Southern Hills Baptist Church.
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  1. Roger says:
    August 3, 2017 at 1:01 pm

    I don’t quite see what is the difference between Lorehaven and Speculative Faith. How are the two distinct?

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    • E. Stephen Burnett says:
      August 3, 2017 at 7:07 pm

      Speculative Faith is an existing group of volunteer writers, each of whom writes once a week on a subject related to speculative stories and the Christian faith.

      Lorehaven will be a free magazine with special content (and an editorial structure). It will be available only in digital magazine distribution. And we’ll focus on Christian-made novels for review and enjoyment in book clubs.

      In the future, you’ll see how Lorehaven‘s website will integrate with Speculative Faith. In my view (and admittedly, speaking as editor and writer here for seven years), SpecFaith is the best source for biblically balanced, fun to read daily articles by our contributors: including Rebecca LuElla Miller (Mondays), Zachary Totah (Tuesdays), Shannon McDermott and Mark Carver (Wednesdays), and guest writers on Fridays. SpecFaith will continue to exist as-is. There’s no need to add a daily content side to Lorehaven — if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

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