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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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A. D. Sheehan
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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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Quick action and character growth drive this story into a magical world that flourishes with Latin flair in its food and settings.
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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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Crystal D. Grant’s debut fantasy slowly builds out a complex medieval world, populated by quickly sketched yet fully realized characters.
292. How Can Christians Confront Fiction Legalists?
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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‘Adventures in Odyssey’ Goes to the Movies?
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Although our laments take many forms, we can celebrate how Christ builds His kingdom through “small” and “big” people who serve Him.
God Used ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ to Shape My Life Beyond Childhood
For over thirty years, Adventures in Odyssey has shared fantastic Christian-made stories, with flawed yet faithful heroes, exciting journeys, and superb drama.
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Two ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ Stories Secretly Inspired My Book ‘The Pop Culture Parent’
Two cassette stories, “You Gotta Be Wise” and “Isaac the Pure,” helped start my lifelong quest about parenting and popular culture.
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Why Can a Book’s Movie Be So Bad? When an Adaptation Goes Astray
Why do adaptations of books to movies and other media sometimes fail? It isn’t always because they didn’t follow the book closely enough.
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Fantastical Truth Travels Back to the Times We First Discovered Fantasy
On our latest Fantastical Truth podcast episode, we share some of your stories about how you first discovered amazing fiction.
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Confessions of a Returning ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ Fan
After I finally returned to my “Adventures in Odyssey” fandom this year, I discovered the Christian audio drama had grown even better.
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Twelve Reasons The ‘Left Behind’ Series Is Actually Awesome, Part 4
Three final reasons I still like the “Left Behind” novels: human journeys, fantastical events, and the return of Jesus.
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Left Behind: A Rapturous Remake
Escapist world of end-times novelty, or fictional fulfillment of real prophecies? However we look at “Left Behind,” here’s how we can explore the movie remake.
— E. Stephen Burnett in Jul 2013 —
Listening To Left Behind: Prologue
Skip the “Left Behind” movies (likely including the upcoming “Caged” remake). The audio-drama series is much more fun. And I hope to re-explore them in a new series.
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Christmas: The Gritty Reboot
First it was a simple, cozy, possibly golden-glowing A-frame stable, then a slightly dirtier cave-stable, and then worse overnight lodging for poor Mary and Joseph. Why do people keep gritty-rebooting the first Christmas?
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