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Oz Four Ways: The Wizard Of Oz
Oz as you’ve never seen it before!
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‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 1: An Unexpected Party
One great way to explore “The Hobbit” is by reading it yourself. Yet if reading stories is worship, we should also read and discuss this classic together.
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‘Doctor Who’: When Justice Seasons ‘Mercy’
The “Doctor Who” episode “A Town Called Mercy” asked viewers to wrestle with the question: who decides who lives or dies? The answer is hidden in plain sight.
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Reading Is Worship 4: Craft-Idolatry
Before discussing industry changes, editors, and manuscript proposals, we must love God’s Story and great stories more than their craft. Otherwise we may be vulnerable to other story-related idolatries.
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Oz, Four Ways: Introduction
Why? Because, because, because, because, because…
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Fred Warren
Stories Of Sacrifice
I think there’s something to the idea that
self-sacrifice is appealing
. C. S. Lewis was particularly good at weaving self-sacrifice into his stories. It, of course, is crucial in the (traditional) opening book of Narnia–
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Lewis and Literature In The Library
Work continues to collect all published, Christian speculative stories in one place — the Speculative Faith Library. This effort also helps reveal a few things about the Christian-spec story field and classic authors that you may not know.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Reviewing Speculative Faith Reviews
Writing more blog entries lamenting the lack of good Christian sci-fi and fantasy novels doesn’t correct this problem. Instead, read Christian SF novels and write reviews. Not just for The Cause, but to help others worship God.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Shallow Reasons To Support ‘Narnia’ 1
Flawed, over-“spiritual” defenses of the “Narnia” series are not only annoying, but ignore the stories’s central beauties and childlike wonder. Even worse, such approaches ultimately make readers worship God less.
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E. Stephen Burnett
‘Why Did(n’t) You Like That Story?’
What films, series, and novels do you enjoy that others despise, and which stories do you dislike that others near-unanimously praise? What possible factors lead to such differences?
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Beyond Inklings Imitations 1: Exploring The Source
Readers have so “cultified” the Inklings that authors and publishers assume the only novels we want to read are imitations of Lewis or Tolkien.
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A. T. Ross
Familiarity Versus Originality
Old stories, as “typical” as they are, speak to a deeper longing in all of us. We want to know that good wins. That there is hope. That love is just around the corner. Life doesn’t always demonstrate that to us, so we find ourselves at Story’s door, wanting to escape to a place where magic is still alive. To fly in the face of that child-like expectation is almost a betrayal of Story.
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Greg Mitchell
The Spiritual Villain
Bane vs. The Joker: in stories, the scariest villains are not the ones who kill the most, leer the most, or have the worst weapons. Instead the scariest villains have spiritual impact on the main characters, or we as readers and viewers.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Speculative Faith Reading Group 7: Aslan Springs Forth
In these two chapters, watch for this contrast: of the wrong sort of “seriousness” — the manipulative, duty-driven dominance of the Witch — versus the joyful, holy, righteous seriousness that Aslan brings.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Shining Light In ‘The Dark Knight’
“You’ll hunt me; you’ll condemn me,” Batman says at the end of The Dark Knight. “That’s what needs to happen.” Some Christians cried: “No it’s not! Heroes don’t lie!” They miss the point.
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E. Stephen Burnett
The Sword Endures
With all the different kinds of speculative stories, with fantastic weapons and wars, why is the symbol and themes of the sword so transcendent?
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Rebecca P. Minor
Speculative Faith Reading Group 6: Greed and Gifts
In these two chapters of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” we see good and evil even more clearly — along with God-exalting, reality-reflecting truths of what really causes evil, and the seriousness of fighting it.
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