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While the first half of the final season suffers from flattened characters, the series offers surprising nuance to its previous messages.
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Crystal D. Grant’s debut fantasy slowly builds out a complex medieval world, populated by quickly sketched yet fully realized characters.
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Ticia Messing
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When people sinfully judge our story choices, Scripture helps us get ready to answer them with doctrinal truth and personal confidence.
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293. How is ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ Making an Animated Film?
In this special live-recorded episode, Stephen and Zack explore Focus on the Family’s 2026 theatrical release and franchise rebrand.
‘Stranger Things’ Season Five Gives Weight to Parents’ Fears
While the first half of the final season suffers from flattened characters, the series offers surprising nuance to its previous messages.
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‘Stranger Things’ Season Five Gives Weight to Parents’ Fears
While the first half of the final season suffers from flattened characters, the series offers surprising nuance to its previous messages.
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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Cuts a Careful Line Between Evil and Redemption
The smash-hit shonen adventure boldly presents its characters with flaws and virtues, be they noble demon slayers or vile demon lords.
— A. D. Sheehan —
‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Pits Singing Heroines vs. Monster Idols
Netflix’s smash hit action musical mixes catchy tunes with Korean folklore and some beautiful moments of common grace.
— Marian A. Jacobs —
â€Superman’ (2025) Will Make You Believe a Man Can Be Earnest
The DCU’s reboot presents a hero more sincere than Marvel’s signature blend.
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Steve Rzasa on Scripture, Story, and Space Opera
Author Steve Rzasa (“The Word Reclaimed” and “The Word Unleashed”) talks his past journalism, present story efforts, and future fiction, touching also on community journalism, denominations, and sci-fi devices for interstellar travel.
— Steve Rzasa —
Secrets Of The â€Firebird’ Story
“Daystar” author Kathy Tyers shares the connection between her now-concluded “Firebird” series and the real world.
— Kathy Tyers —
Challenging The Indie Imagination
For this epic-story reader, it’s hard to keep track of all the new independent Christian-speculative publishers. Wouldn’t it better to combine some of them, at least for marketing? Several indie press-runners have already joined this conversation.
— E. Stephen Burnett —
Speculative Politics 2: Perspectives From Marc Schooley
Author Marc Schooley explains why he believes the Church has over-entangled itself in politics. Yet he agrees much with his fellow Marcher Lord Press author Kerry Nietz’s perspective about how stories and authors touch on politics.
— Marc Schooley —
Marcher Lord Press And The Hinterlands Imprint
Could I publish a book with vulgarity, nudity, and sex? That was the real question. What would my mom think, you know? What would all the awesome homeschooling moms who love MLP think? What would my other authors think?
— Jeff Gerke —
On The â€Throne Of Bones’: A Q and A With Vox Day
“A Throne of Bones” epic-fantasy author Vox Day discusses how he’s moved from columns to fiction, controversial novel content, and his criticism (not imitation) of “A Game of Thrones.”
— Vox Day —
The Christian And Stories
Should we seek to win the hard drinking and hard swearing jock by writing stories filled with drinking and swearing? Since real people do drink and swear and assault people and have affairs, since real people are prostitutes or frauds or terrorists, shouldn’t our stories show them in all their ugliness and need?
— Rebecca LuElla Miller —
Offended
One day, while I was still attending Seminary, one of my professors came in and admitted to doing something heretical. I remember it well, even fifteen years later.
— John Otte —
Realm Makers: Go Beyond The Blogs
Realm Makers offered more than cosplay and shared fandom. It gave deep doctrinal magic and a chance for Christian fans to better “incarnate” their love of fantastic fiction.
— E. Stephen Burnett —
Explaining The Epic: â€Amish Vampires In Space’
Author Kerry Nietz on how a running gag at conferences became his full-length novel, featuring Amish, versus vampires, naturally in space.
— Kerry Nietz —
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