In the Fantastical Truth podcast from Lorehaven, hosts E. Stephen Burnett and Zackary Russell explore fantastical stories for God's glory.
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138. What If the Government Made You Act Like An Android? | Aberration with Cathy McCrumb

127. Can a ‘Code of Honor’ Help Christian Unity in Creative Groups?

126. How Can We Respond With Grace and Truth to Christian Cringe? | with Kevin McCreary

125. Why Do ‘False Prophets’ Predict Doom for Movie Theaters and Other Cultural Experiences?

124. How Should Christian Novels Help Secular Readers?

123. Which Fantastical Novels Won Big at the 2022 Realm Awards?

121. Will Humans Colonize the Cosmos Before Jesus Returns?

120. How Can Christians Enjoy Biblical Freedom in Fiction and Imagination?

119. Will Congress Disclose the UFOs Our Favorite Alien Stories Ask Us to Believe In? | with Colin Samul

118. Which Fantastical Stories Help Us Celebrate Human Life?

117. Why Should You Build a Fantastical Lending Library? | with L.G. McCary

116. Why Do Homeschooled Students Love Fantastical Fiction? | with Ethan Nunn

113. What If You Learned Bible Lessons from Singing Veggies and Dead Sea Squirrels? | with Mike Nawrocki

112. How Does Fiction Help Us Love Our Enemies Even If We Must Defeat Them?

111. Why Do Your Kids Need Fantastical Stories for God’s Glory?

110. Could We Enter a ‘Golden Age’ of Christian-Made Fantastical Fiction?

109. How Should Local Churches Support Christian-Made Fantasy?

108: How Does Christ’s Resurrection Change Our Old Lives Forever? | with Tim Chaffey

107. Why Is The Daily Wire Spending Millions To Create Fantastic Shows for Kids? | with Frank J. Fleming

106. What If Homeschool Families Can Help Christian Fantasy Grow for Generations?

105. What If Planet Earth Was Invaded By Hostile Corporate Aliens? | Maxine Justice: Galactic Attorney with Daniel Schwabauer

104. What If You Fled From God’s Wrath Into Puritan Allegory? | The Pilgrim’s Progress with Zachary Bartels

103. When Christians Clash in Public, Can Great Stories Help Us Fight for Peace?

101. Why Have Some Christians Moved from Engaging Entertainment to Franchise Fatigue? | with Megan Basham

99. How Can Christians Discern Sensual Scenes on the Printed Page? | with Parker J. Cole

98. Should Christian Creators Abandon Secular Fiction Markets? | with Thomas Umstattd Jr.

97. What If Rabbits With Swords Fought For Hope in a Mended Wood? | The Green Ember with S. D. Smith

96. While Celebrity Creators Rise and Fall, How Do We Best Respect Christian Authors?

95. How Can We Fight the Shadow When It Breaks the Wheel of Time and Other Fandoms? | with G. Shane Morris

92. Twenty Years Later, How Did We Enjoy ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’? | with Rilian of NarniaWeb

91. What If You Fought Astride Elemental Horses to Unify Your Kingdom? | Of Fire and Ash with Gillian Bronte Adams

90. Does the Harry Potter Series Cast or Condemn Real-World Dark Magic? | with G. Shane Morris

89. What Are the Most Dangerous Dragons Infesting YA Fantasy? | with James R. Hannibal and Marian Jacobs

88. Can We Positively Engage Culture in a Negative World? | with Bethel McGrew, aka Esther O’Reilly

87. How Can We Best Enjoy Newfound Fandoms Like the Book and Movie ‘Dune’?

86. How Can Christians Fight Halloween’s Deathly Flippancy and Dark Magic?

85. What If You Joined a Quest to Defeat Goblins, Trolls, and Ancient Invaders? | Wolf Soldier with James R. Hannibal

84. How Did Bestselling Christian Novels Build Evangelical Culture? | Reading Evangelicals with Daniel Silliman

83. How Can Fans Heal from Stories That ‘Wreck’ Us? | with Marian Jacobs

82. What If Your Nightmares Came to Life and Haunted Your Day? | That Pale Host with L. G. McCary

79. How Do We Use Fantastic Fiction to Process Wars and Rumors of Wars?

78. What If You Discovered Fairy Dust and Peter Pan Were Real? | The Heirs of Neverland series with Kara Swanson

76. Why Did Secular Readers Try to Cancel A Christian Historical Romance Novel? | with Parker J. Cole

75. What If Only Human Blood and Sacrifice Could Save Your Empire? | The Seventh Sun with Lani Forbes

74. What If Christians Created Backstory for Noah’s Ark and Also Built the Actual Boat? | with Tim Chaffey

73. Does the Pentagon’s UFO Report Expose Unidentified Aerial Phenomena? | with Colin Samul

71. Why Do Christian Fans and Authors Assemble at Realm Makers? | at Realm Makers 2021

69. How Can Faithful Stories Best Show Backslidden Heroes?

68. Why Do Time Travelers Like to Romanticize the Past? | Come Back to Me with Jody Hedlund

67. How Do Fantastic Stories Avoid Preachiness While Still Discipling Readers in Christ? | with L. G. McCary

66. What If You Escaped Your Floating Island, But Returned to Face Rebellion? | Windward Shore with Sharon Hinck

65. Why Do Homeschool Families Love Christian-Made Fantastical Fiction?

64. Should Christians ‘Mask Up’ or ‘Get Vaccines’ to Prevent Fiction Infections?

63. Did God Create Aliens and Would Jesus Need to Save Them?

62. How Can Christian Fans Share Great Stories Without Becoming ‘Support Zombies’?

61. How Does Edgier Science Fiction Challenge Christian Readers? | with Kerry Nietz

60. Why Don’t Real Researchers Heed Sci-Fi Warnings Against Mad Science?

59. How Can Christian Fans Respond to Preachy Secular Fiction?

58. How Did We Enjoy the Heroic Majesty of ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’?

57. How Do Stories Help Us Imagine Suffering and the Hope of Resurrection?

56. Which Biblical Qualities Empower Strong Female Characters? | with Elisabeth Wheatley

55. Should Christians Embrace Cultural and Digital Enclaves? | with Austin Gunderson

54. How Can Christian Fans React When Fantasy Creators Get Cancelled? part 2

53. How Can Christian Fans React When Fantasy Creators Get Cancelled? part 1

51. Do Christians Really Need Fantasy? | Fiction’s Chief End, part 2

50. Do Christians Really Need Fiction? | Fiction’s Chief End, part 1

49. How Can We ‘Terraform’ the Church to Enjoy Fantastic Fiction?

48. What Were the Top Seven Issues for Lorehaven Readers in 2020?

47. Why Do Some People Long for Escape to a Galactic Community?

46. Ten Years Later, Why Did ‘Dawn Treader’ Sink the Narnia Movies? | with Rilian of NarniaWeb

45. How Can a Wingless Piskey Learn to Fly? | The Flight and Flame Trilogy, with R. J. Anderson

42. What if Invaders Kidnapped Your Brother in a Frozen Land? | Seventh City, with Emily Hayse

41. Should Christians Boycott Popular Culture Like Halloween or Netflix? | with Cap Stewart

40. How May Fantastic Stories Help Us See Politics in Biblical Perspective?

39. How Might Bram Stoker’s Novel ‘Dracula’ Cast Light Against Modern Vampires? | with Geoffrey Reiter

38. Should Christians Enjoy Fantasy with Fictional Magic? Part 2

37. Should Christians Enjoy Fantasy with Fictional Magic? Part 1

36. How Do Paranormal Tales Edify the Christian Reader? | The Reagan Moon series, with Mike Duran

35. Did C. S. Lewis Say It’s ‘Pure Moonshine’ to Create Stories that Teach Christian Truth?

34. How Has Lorehaven Been Questing Through the Great 2020 Pandemic?

33. How Does Portraying Fantastical Characters Develop Christian Character? | with Julie Novak

32. What Five Questions Help Us Engage Popular Culture for God’s Glory? | The Pop Culture Parent, part 2

31. What If Popular Culture Was Actually God’s Idea All Along? | The Pop Culture Parent, part 1

30. How Can The Babylon Bee’s Satire Reflect Our Crazy Reality? | with Frank J. Fleming

29. What If You Escaped from Captivity but Left Your Brother Behind? | These Nameless Things, with Shawn Smucker

28. How Should Christians Discern ‘The Chosen’ and Other Biblical Fiction?

27. What Wackiness Awaits in the Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle? | with Bill Myers

26. How Do We Defeat the Top Seven Myths about The Chronicles of Narnia? Part 2

25. Which Christian Fantastical Books Won Big at the 2020 Realm Awards?

24. How Do We Defeat the Top Seven Myths about The Chronicles of Narnia? Part 1

23. What If You Could Turn Stories into Sculptures? | The Weaver Trilogy, with Lindsay A. Franklin

22. How Do Christians Discern UFO Accounts in Light of Scripture?

21. In a Blind World, What If Only One Boy Could See? | For Whom the Sun Sings, with W. A. Fulkerson

20. What if a Space Plague Turned the Amish into Zombies? | clip from Amish Zombies from Space

19. How Do Christian Authors Stay Sensitive About ‘Grittier Than PG-13’ Content?

18. Who Are the First Real Superheroes Hiding in the Bible? | with Chase Replogle

17. What Can Christian Fans Learn From #ReleaseTheSnyderCut’s Success?

16. How Do We Discern Stories That Claim ‘Humans Are A Virus’ on the Earth?

BONUS: How Might Biblical Fiction Best Explore Jesus’s Early Life? | with R. S. Ingermanson

15. What if NASA Finally Launched for Mars, But One Astronaut Was a Saboteur? | Oxygen with Randy Ingermanson

13. What if Jesus Promised to Redeem Not Just His People But His Creation?

12. What if Jesus Promised to Redeem Not Just Our Souls but Our Bodies?

11. What If Your Suicidal Space Battle Failed, Then You Defected to the Enemy? | Firebird with Kathy Tyers

10. How Can Excellent Christian Fiction Strengthen Our Faith in Jesus?

9. What If the Armies of Hell Tried to Invade Your Hometown? | This Present Darkness

8. How Does Pandemic Fiction Help Us Seek God’s Strength in Scary Times? | The Line Between

7. How Does Jesus Define and Redeem His Gift of Imagination? | with Brian Godawa

6. How Did You First Discover Fantastical Stories?

5. What Harm Are ‘The Witcher’ and Other Shows Doing to Their People? | with Jason Morehead

4. What Are the Top Recent Debates Among Christian Fantasy Fans?

3. What If Dancing Could Control the World? | Hidden Current

2. What Do We Mean By Saying ‘It’s A Christian Story’?

1. What If the Three Wise Men Actually Wanted to Crown a King? | The End of the Magi​

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