As a young teen, R. L. Copple played in his own make-believe world, writing the stories and drawing the art for his own comics while experiencing the worlds of other authors like Tolkien, Lewis, Asimov, and Lester Del Ray. As an adult, after years of writing devotionally, he returned to the passion of his youth in order to combine his fantasy worlds and faith into the reality of the printed page. Since then, his imagination has given birth to The Reality Chronicles trilogy from Splashdown Books, and The Virtual Chronicles series, Ethereal Worlds Anthology, and How to Make an Ebook: Using Free Software from Ethereal Press, along with numerous short stories in various magazines.Learn more about R. L and his work at any of the following:Author Website, Author Blog, or Author Store.
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Wizards, Witches, and The Bible

Can fantasy magic be of God?
— R. L. Copple in March 2015 —

Is Prayer In Fiction Fictional?

What constitutes an unrealistic view of prayer in fiction?
— R. L. Copple in February 2015 —

Allegory and The Gospel

Can allegory effectively communicate the Gospel message?
— R. L. Copple in February 2015 —

Horror – One Size Fits All

Is horror literature inherently anti-Christian?
— R. L. Copple in February 2015 —

Horror and Philippians 4:8

Should Christians avoid the horrors of horror?
— R. L. Copple in January 2015 —

Christianity, Gore, and Death

Do we define Christian fiction by its avoidance of gore and death?
— R. L. Copple in January 2015 —

Stories Taking On Flesh

What is the best way to evaluate the Christian Speculative Market?
— R. L. Copple in January 2015 —

Did Christian Movies Make A Splash In 2014?

Does lackluster sales in 2014 spell the end of Christian-themed movies going forward?
— R. L. Copple in December 2014 —

God’s Speculative Story

When God speculates, reality listens.
— R. L. Copple in December 2014 —

The Crossover Bug

Does Christian fiction crossing over to the general market mean watering down the Faith?
— R. L. Copple in December 2014 —

Can One Be A Practicing Homosexual Christian?

Did Matthew Vines prove Biblically that a Christian can be a practicing homosexual without sinning?
— R. L. Copple in December 2014 —

7 Top Ways To Ensure Your Story Is Preachy

You know you want your Christian story to preach. What are the best ways to ensure that outcome? Here are 7 top methods.
— R. L. Copple in December 2014 —

Non-Fiction Readers Less Empathetic Than Fiction Readers

Why non-fiction readers should seriously consider reading fiction.
— R. L. Copple in November 2014 —

Did OT Morality Get Thrown Under The Bus?

Can we really ditch parts of the Bible?
— R. L. Copple in November 2014 —

The Blame Game

Who’s to blame? Does it matter?
— R. L. Copple in November 2014 —

Submit, Woman!

What does real submission in marriage look like?
— R. L. Copple in November 2014 —

Not Of This World

How does Christian fiction influence our culture?
— R. L. Copple in October 2014 —

Five Myths Of Cultural Engagement

Have you encountered any of these myths?
— R. L. Copple in October 2014 —

Marital Chaos

How will homosexual marriages affect Christian marriage?
— R. L. Copple in October 2014 —

Fantasy and Christianity

The rejection of fantasy causes one to limit God.
— R. L. Copple in September 2014 —

Is Capitalism Distorting Christianity?

If culture is redeemable, it is because the people that make it up are redeemable.
— R. L. Copple in September 2014 —

Sinful Reviews

When a Christian reader writes a review, should it not be for the glory of God just as much as the Christian novel writer?
— R. L. Copple in September 2014 —

Star Trekking Religion By Firefly

Is portraying religion positively enough?
— R. L. Copple in September 2014 —

The Agnosticism Of Faith

I’m an agnostic.
— R. L. Copple in September 2014 —

Cussing Grandma

When Christian authors make Grandma cuss.
— R. L. Copple in August 2014 —

Vain Cussing

Does the third commandment mean to avoid using God’s name as an expletive?
— R. L. Copple in August 2014 —

What’s In A Name?

Does it matter what we call Christian fiction?
— R. L. Copple in August 2014 —

Love At First Read

What book(s) launched your speculative fiction addiction?
— R. L. Copple in July 2014 —

Finding The Edgy In Christian Fiction

God’s calling for edgy Christian fiction.
— R. L. Copple in July 2014 —

Conversion Scenes: Are They Real?

The bigger issue in my mind isn’t whether a story has a conversion scene or not, but how well it is portrayed.
— R. L. Copple in July 2014 —

Lynch Mob Mentality

Remember the Christian witch-hunt over Harry Potter?
— R. L. Copple in July 2014 —

Why Does Romance Dominate Christian Fiction?

There is an inherent discontinuity between the Christian Faith and fiction.
— R. L. Copple in July 2014 —

The Coming Speculative Fiction Storm

For the first time in forever, an author no longer needed a publisher to economically publish their book and have readers find and buy it.
— R. L. Copple in June 2014 —

Biblical Discernment: The Pure Free-for-all

If all things are pure, Paul wouldn’t be concerned that they might be led astray.
— R. L. Copple in June 2014 —

Biblical Discernment: Focus

It isn’t the presence of “icky, bad stuff†that we are to avoid thinking about, but rather discernment comes into play on what that stuff, icky or not, leads us to focus on, what truths it formulates in our minds.
— R. L. Copple in May 2014 —

Godzilla Is Not Dead

There is one thing God and Godzilla have in common. People keep thinking they’ve been killed off, only to watch them come back to life.
— R. L. Copple in May 2014 —

Visual Impact

Have we been trained over the last few years by movies to only like certain styles of story-telling?
— R. L. Copple in May 2014 —

The Meaning Of Life

It is the readers who decide what is quality fiction. It is readers who decide what will be classics or not.
— R. L. Copple in May 2014 —

Keeping It Real

Too often, I suspect, the subject of sex and marriage is avoided rather than fleshed out in most Christian fiction. This is not an effective counter to secular values on the subject regularly plastered in mainstream speculative fiction.
— R. L. Copple in April 2014 —

Marital Reality In Fiction

We don’t counter the excesses of secular morals about sex by ignoring sex, but by showing it in its proper context.
— R. L. Copple in April 2014 —

The Plowing Of Hades

When we speculate, it becomes a story. When God speculates, it becomes reality.
— R. L. Copple in April 2014 —

Agenda Fiction Is Alive and Well

The purpose of fiction is to experience the truth lived out in real life. Even if that real life is in the future, past, or a fantasy world.
— R. L. Copple in April 2014 —

Evangelizing Entertainment

I’d tend to evaluate the movie Noah like any speculative fiction story in relation to my faith: What picture of God and man is painted for me when taken as a whole?
— R. L. Copple in April 2014 —

Quality Is As Quality Does

Karen Watson suggests that people who scoff at Christian fiction probably haven’t read it lately. Well, have you?
— R. L. Copple in March 2014 —

What Does The Reader Say?

What does a Christian Speculative Fiction reader consider quality fiction?
— R. L. Copple in March 2014 —

Christian Fiction = ???

Christian Fiction = (faith * imagination)2 / audience. Too complicated? Watch R. L. Copple attempt to unravel it.
— R. L. Copple in March 2014 —

Christian Market A Fixed Point In Time?

Could the Doctor change history using book ratings?
— R. L. Copple in March 2014 —

Fantastic or Not?

Does a change in skin color represent the original character or create a continuity problem? Michael B. Jordan may find out in playing the Human Torch.
— R. L. Copple in February 2014 —

Redefining Creationism

The focus on evolution vs. creation distracts from what Genesis 1 actually teaches.
— R. L. Copple in February 2014 —

Manipulation

Where there’s money, there will be manipulators of any system.
— R. L. Copple in February 2014 —

The Bible: R-Rated?

Can the Bible be used to support mature content in Christian fiction?
— R. L. Copple in February 2014 —

Has Speculative Fiction Aborted Controversial Positions?

Can a speculative story interweave an issue like abortion into its plot effectively? Especially faith-based speculative fiction?
— R. L. Copple in January 2014 —

The Fear Factor

Evil is scary. But God is scarier.
— R. L. Copple in January 2014 —

The Horror Of It All: Journey Into Fear

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” ~Lovecraft
— R. L. Copple in January 2014 —

Why I Put It Down

Here are my top eight reasons, in descending order, why I’m likely to put a book down and stop reading.
— R. L. Copple in December 2013 —

The Twelve Weeks Of Christmas

Christmas tends to be celebrated in the twelve weeks leading up to December 25th.
— R. L. Copple in December 2013 —

Ghostwriters In The Sky

That revelation changed how I viewed the book. I still love it, but some of the luster dulled in the feeling of having believed a lie.
— R. L. Copple in December 2013 —

Fictional Christianity

If it sounds right and they like the speaker, many will not blink an eye and drink the koolaid.
— R. L. Copple in December 2013 —

Science Of The Gaps

Science can help explain the how of things, it cannot theorize about why or who that is responsible. Yet people continue to use science to fill in the gaps of atheism and agnosticism.
— R. L. Copple in December 2013 —

Why God Created Us

The question of why God created us felt as unanswerable as “Can God make a rock so big He can’t lift it?”
— R. L. Copple in November 2013 —

God From The Story

Any author who has God as a character is always in danger of alienating readers by what God does or doesn’t do or say.
— R. L. Copple in November 2013 —

Theism, Reloaded

You can theorize on the fence, but you can’t live there.
— R. L. Copple in November 2013 —

A Moral Imperative

“You can’t legislate morality.” . . . the statement as written is categorically false.
— R. L. Copple in November 2013 —

How Storytelling Conveys Truth Better Than Non-fiction

I would suggest that what plagues much Christian fiction isn’t so much the desire to convey theological truths, but the mixing of non-fiction with fiction. Both forms are valid and have their place, but when they are mixed into a story, the result tends to be a story that isn’t engaging and/or sloppy/incomplete teaching.
— R. L. Copple in December 2012 —

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