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147. Why Can Christians Celebrate Stories about Merlin and King Arthur? | with Robert Treskillard
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146. How Did Animators Adapt The Wingfeather Saga For Streaming TV? | with Keith Lango
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145. How Did Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene’ Shape Christian Fantasy? | with Rebecca K. Reynolds
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Fantastical Truth from Lorehaven has begun season 3! As we exit the holidays, we’re echoing another livestream replay from earlier this month. Marian Jacobs and James R. Hannibal join us again, not just to discern the nonsense and nastiness in fantasy stories, but to thank God for the chance to find great stories and receive them with thanksgiving and holiness. That’s our mission at Lorehaven, especially with the Lorehaven Guild now open for fantastical community and monthly book quests, starting this Saturday!

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The world has changed. We feel it in the earth. We smell it in the air. It’s no longer positive or neutral, but negative toward Christianity. How can we find the best fantastical stories that reflect gospel goodness, truth, and beauties in these novel worlds? Rejoin Lorehaven’s E. Stephen Burnett and Marian Jacobs as well as James R. Hannibal, thanking God for faithful fiction this year.

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Last year at this time, our parent community of Lorehaven went all-digital: new articles every month, podcasts on Tuesdays, reviews on Fridays, plus news updates and other resources to help Christian fans explore fantastical stories for God’s glory. We will survey which stories made the biggest impact on readers, and catch up with the creators who react to your reactions.

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    1. notleia says:
      January 5, 2022 at 8:33 pm

      But DOES swearing make your anger worse? I don’t think it’s the swearing that makes it bad. IDK if it’s actually any better if someone commits violence or dehumanization even tho they don’t swear. You can swear to vent your feelings and frustrations about situations and still not apply it to people to dehumanize them.

      One theory about girls reading more than boys is that girls are taught to empathize with people who are not like themselves and can therefore get into stories about many different kinds of characters, while boys…I hesitate to say “emotionally stunted” but sometimes that feels accurate. Let us phrase it as saying that they don’t see the value in learning to sympathize with characters that they already don’t relate to.

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    2. notleia says:
      January 5, 2022 at 8:34 pm

      ‘scuse me, I messed up my HTML tags

      *learning to sympathize with characters that they already don’t relate to.

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