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‘On Magic and Miracles’ Trains Christians to Dispel Darkness and Discern Fantastic Stories
Christian skeptics of fantasy must reckon with the biblical wisdom spelled in Marian A. Jacobs’s nonfiction-about-fiction book.
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‘On Magic and Miracles’ Trains Christians to Dispel Darkness and Discern Fantastic Stories
Christian skeptics of fantasy must reckon with the biblical wisdom spelled in Marian A. Jacobs’s nonfiction-about-fiction book.
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What Arouses Hatred of Fantastic Romantic Fiction?
Two Christian authors share reader response to their explorations of longing and love.
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Our villain was the cancer that preyed on my younger sister, Kate.
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My Screenwriter Mom Introduced Me to Fantastic Sci-Fi in the 1960s
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The Death and Rebirth of Magic in Children’s Fantasy
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How Horror Films Subvert the Fatalistic Tragedy of Alzheimer’s and Dementia
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We can love villains when they reveal our brokenness and lead us to God’s grace.
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The Messages of Black Horror Films
Black horror films have been around for decades with their popularity spawning about every twenty years. Black horror films have a dual purpose – to tell a story and to address a social issue.
— Parker J. Cole in January 2021 —
How Political Punditry Has Taken Over Christian Popular Subcultures
Since the early 2000s, even benign evangelical fads like end-times mania have been replaced by totalizing national narratives.
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Collides with Itself
The time-inverting action film is not a great sci-fi thriller, but does offer fantastic and even wholesome spectacle.
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Why ‘The Wild Swans’ Has Captivated Me Since Childhood
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Stargate SG-1 Season One–Making Weak Ideas Into a Better Story
Stargate SG-1 is new for me. I didn’t think the Stargate movie was great–this post details how the series started off with weak ideas but made good stories anyway.
— Travis Perry in December 2020 —
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