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Twelve Reasons The ‘Left Behind’ Series Is Actually Awesome, Part 1
Behind questionable end-times views and style, the “Left Behind” series is fine pulp-thriller fantasy.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Being Blessed By All The Fiction Crazy
Despite Christians’ fiction craziness, our crazy-generous God keeps giving to the undeserving.
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E. Stephen Burnett
2013 Winter Writing Challenge Round 1 Voting Redo
I’m re-posting the entries below in the order in which they were originally posted (alternating font color to make it easier to identify the beginning of each entry). As before, you may like (vote for) as many as you wish
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
‘The Hobbit’ Story Group 8: Flies and Spiders
In which the Dwarves’ company enters a fantasy forest corrupted by evil.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Not So Sleepy After All
“Sleepy Hollow” left John W. Otte a little sleepy. And a little angry. Find out why in today’s post.
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John Otte
News and Views: Ben-man, Gnosticism, The Doctor
Ben Affleck as Batman, Kathy Tyers reboots Gnostic notions, “Doctor Who” news, author Brett McCracken’s nonfiction “Gray Matters.”
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E. Stephen Burnett
Presenting The Final Five
Voting is underway to determine the winner of the 2013 Clive Staples Award. We’re down to the five finalists.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Resurrection, Part 1: Prelude
Every good hero in fantasy and science fiction must experience some kind of death and rebirth. Only one Hero has truly done it. And only He can share the joy of His Resurrection.
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E. Stephen Burnett
What Makes Fantasy Work? Part 2
I hope our readers here at Spec Faith are thinking about the Christian speculative novel–fantasy, science fiction, supernatural, or whatever–they would like to nominate for the Clive Staples Award. Let’s find the books that work and pick the best of the lot to honor.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Christmas: The Gritty Reboot
First it was a simple, cozy, possibly golden-glowing A-frame stable, then a slightly dirtier cave-stable, and then worse overnight lodging for poor Mary and Joseph. Why do people keep gritty-rebooting the first Christmas?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Oz Four Ways – Wicked: The Life and Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West
This isn’t your grandfather’s Oz, not by a long shot.
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Fred Warren
Fantastic Tropes and Where To Find Them
Every story has tropes. Christian speculative stories are no exception. Here’s a tongue-in-cheek collection.
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Kessie Carroll
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
What’s In A Name?
Pretty or not, names have power.
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Fred Warren
Speculative Faith Reading Group 9: From Defeat, Final Victory
Even among the greatest stories, the finale of LWW is unique. Here are echoes of Resurrection, eternal joy, and the truth that Christ’s people will reign physically over the New Heavens and New Earth.
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E. Stephen Burnett
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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E. Stephen Burnett
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