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

Christians learn through stories and music, so if churches already have music pastors, perhaps we could add “story pastors” to help us cultivate, shepherd, and create great fiction.

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

He is risen! Christians celebrate the truth of Christ’s victory over death, yet often miss the implications for our own promised resurrection.

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

Now that Disney producers are promising to add more false religion into their shows, this controversy may be animating new Christian creatives.

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

We just hosted our Lorehaven booth at the Teach Them Diligently conference in Texas, where kids and their parents love Christian fantastical fiction.

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

Daniel Schwabauer joins us to explore this new heroine’s legal defense of planet Earth.

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

Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles? Rediscover the complex allegories of John Bunyan’s classic adventure.

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

Great stories might help us best discern Christian debates, training our hearts so we can focus on engaging ideas, not attacking individuals.

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

Despite fan frustrations with “woke” stories, Christians can still engage popular culture while discerning our own callings and the world’s idols.

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

Longing looks and steamy smooches in stories might reflect God’s gift of romantic love, yet provoke many readers into serious temptation.

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

Christian creators should simply (insert ideal here) to impress general market gatekeepers, right? Not so fast. Sometimes secular publishers actually dislike Christians.

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

S. D. Smith brings us into his popular Green Ember fantasy world of tiny creatures who find big adventure.

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

We may treat winning authors like angels and failing authors like devils, when we need to see them as Christ sees them: flawed human beings.

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

Zack and returning guest Shane Morris explore how Christians best respond when secular showrunners corrupt a story’s canon and break fans’ hearts.

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

Twenty years after The Fellowship of the Ring released in theaters, NarniaWeb’s good prince Rilian helps us recall how Christians love exploring Peter Jackson’s one film trilogy to rule them all.

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

Gillian Bronte Adams rides to meet Fantastical Truth, exploring her Fireborn Epic’s fantasy world with its elemental horses and fantastic themes.

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

Twenty years after the first Harry Potter film premiered in theaters, Christians might bypass brick walls and find positive magical education at Hogwarts School.

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

Three storytellers wield faith over fear to battle YA fantasy fiends, in this special encore feature of a Realm Makers livestream event.

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

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.

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

New fandoms can bring us into exciting desert frontiers, yet also bristle with dangers slithering below the sands.

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

Halloween can promote good gifts like fall and fandom, yet its decor can also make light of serious death, suffering, or dark magic.

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

James R. Hannibal rests from military spycraft and dragon-slaying to explore fantastic worlds, Scripture memory, and Christlike figures in fiction.

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

Christianity Today news editor Daniel Silliman explores why fans loved top Christian fiction, including This Present Darkness, Left Behind, and The Shack.

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

Some authors brag they want to “wreck you, the reader,” yet Christ promises a happy end that redeems all our harms.

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

That Pale Host ushers us into familiar haunted spaces: personal conflict, trauma versus responsibility, and mental health for Christ’s people.

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

When terrorists attacked and towers fell, how did Christians engage with nonfiction books and fantastical tales?

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

Dust and Shadow author Kara Swanson shares the happy thoughts and nobledark struggles behind her Peter Pan retelling.

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

Christians must address romance fiction’s tragic backstories when we respond to cancel campaigns with gospel grace and conviction.

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

We deconstruct faith and suffering in Lani Forbes’s Mesoamerican fantasy novel The Seventh Sun, winner of three Realm Awards.

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

We’re joined by Tim Chaffey of Answers in Genesis, one of the creative architects who helped build the Ark Encounter.

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

Colin Samul joins us to explore the Pentagon’s June report, which could not explain over 140 aerial encounters with strange objects.

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

At Realm Makers, we shared story joys with executive director Scott Minor, The Seventh Sun author Lani Forbes, and other fantastic creators.

69. How Can Faithful Stories Best Show Backslidden Heroes?

Realistic backsliders recover faith not by shallow isolated sentiment, but by serious biblical restoration to Christ’s people.

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

Stories can help readers explore the past in new ways, often showing how history points to ultimate happy endings.

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

Christian-made stories should not preach from on high at readers beyond the “fourth wall,” but should help disciple our imaginations in Christ.

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

Author Sharon Hinck joins us to explore grace versus legalism in her recently concluded fantasy trilogy, The Dancing Realms series.

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

At the traveling Realm Makers Bookstore, homeschool families love to find Christian-made fantastical fiction. What can they teach us?

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

Viruses, masks, and vaccines act out a parable for sin, the law, and grace, so let’s not confuse secular symbols for religious realities.

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

If God created life on other planets, would Scripture support these creatures being sentient, good, evil, or in need of redemption?

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

How can Christian fans avoid shuffling along with subculture herds, even while we share the Christian-made stories we enjoy?

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

Christian-made sci-fi tends toward the softer side, leaving an opening for more complex futuristic tales that engage with controversial themes.

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

Why do our scientists get so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they don’t stop to hear secular fiction’s dire forecasts?

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

When stories lose the plot and just want to give you a religious lecture, should Christians get mad or else gently scoff in amusement?

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

Sci-fi novelist Kerry Nietz and Lorehaven review chief Austin Gunderson join our heroic team to explore the long-awaited super-film Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

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

We explore how the Gospel and similar reflections in fantastic stories help us prepare for times of suffering, death, and resurrection.

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

Physical combat is often the defining feature of strength, but female characters needn’t be boxed into stereotypes to be considered strong.

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

Christians fleeing cancel culture should consider becoming “Amish cyberpunks” and build cutting-edge digital enclaves.

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

How can Christians react to possibly necessary “cancellations” of badly behaving fantasy creators?

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

Can you avoid “cancel culture” by apologizing? How can Christian fans respond to “cancellations” and enjoy stories from fallen creators?

52. Do Christians Really Need Science Fiction? | Fiction’s Chief End, part 3

Christians need science fiction to fulfill the Cultural Mandate, build bridges with our neighbors, and anticipate a future world of sci-fi wonders.

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

Christians need fantastical imagination to believe in God and the gospel, train to be like Jesus, and engage our world and neighbors.

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

Fiction isn’t just optional for Christian readers, but a God-given gift we actually need to grow as redeemed people.
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