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If you’ve heard bad about “new Trek” but good about Picard’s final season, here’s how to best enjoy this sublime sci-fi.
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Creators will return to St. Louis in July 2023 for workshops and awards banquet.
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Realm Makers Announces Winners of 2022 Realm Awards for Best Christian-Made Fantasy
The tenth annual Realm Awards conference banquet recognizes excellence in fantastical fiction, cover art, and audio stories.
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For over thirty years, Adventures in Odyssey has shared fantastic Christian-made stories, with flawed yet faithful heroes, exciting journeys, and superb drama.
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Halloween’s tropes can make light of darkness, twist the glories of resurrection, and keep us from reckoning with real-world suffering.
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Two Christian publishers will release monthly fantastic-genre novels as audiobooks, plus over seventy previous Enclave titles.
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Flashback: Mars Hill Church’s Mark Driscoll Badly Discerned the ‘Twilight’ Series
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American superheroes show wish-fulfillment and nobledark realism.
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Amazon also gave a concept glimpse of its Middle-earth series, possibly showing their version of Valinor with its two trees created by the Valar.
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Realm Makers Announces Winners of 2021 Realm Awards for Best Christian-Made Fantasy
The Realm Awards costume banquet on Friday night in St. Louis recognized excellence in fiction, cover design, and audio stories.
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Tonight at 8 p.m. (Eastern) E. Stephen Burnett explores why homeschool families love novels that are Christian-made, fantastical, and awesome.
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Let’s Train Our Kids, and Each Other, to Enjoy and Discern Biblical Fiction for God’s Glory
Movies and TV aren’t responsible for training our kids to discern biblical fiction, because that’s the job of Christ’s people, the Church.
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Sometimes Unbelievers Help Make Fantastic Biblical Fiction, So Let’s Thank God for Them
God gives salvation only to people in Jesus Christ, but gives creative gifts to every person who reflects our Creator’s image.
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How Great Biblical Fiction Adds Extra-Biblical Images Yet Honors God’s Word
As we enjoy biblical fiction for Christ’s glory, we must discern ideas that are biblical, extra-biblical, or even unbiblical.
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Behold the Fantastic Purposes of ‘The Chosen’ and Other Great Biblical Fiction
To enjoy great biblical fiction, let’s see the purpose of these stories according to the Bible—not as mere tools, but as ways of worship.
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As of today, registration opens for the live July 15–17 conference in St. Louis that also streams online.
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“Reading Evangelicals ultimately makes the case that the worlds created in these novels reflected and shaped the world evangelicals saw themselves living in.”
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“TheOneRing.net has verified the authenticity & accuracy of this show description.”
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Thomas Kinkade Studios Now Making ‘The Mandalorian’ Products
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