The Making Of A Myth, Part 6 — Tolkien On Romance

Would J. R. R. Tolkien, if he were alive today, be a fan of prairie romance? The question is appropriate because of what he wrote in his essay “On Fairy-Stories” regarding escapism.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in Dec 2011 —

The Restorer—Expanded Edition

About the Book Susan Mitchell thought she was an ordinary homemaker. She was wrong. When she’s pulled through a portal into another world, she finds a nation grappling for its soul and waiting for a promised Restorer to save their […]
— Sharon Hinck in Dec 2011 —

The Making Of A Myth, Part 5 – The Use Of Primary Colors

I wonder what J. R. R. Tolkien would think about Harry Potter. Or Twilight. Or dystopian fantasies like Veronica Roth’s Divergent. Would the author of “On Fairy-Stories” be a fan of the darker forms fantasy has taken in the last decade or so?
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in Dec 2011 —

The Making Of A Myth, Part 4

Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in Dec 2011 —

Dark Is The Stain: Suspense.

Sunday morning Fred posted a lovely series of Advent readings and Scriptures, and yesterday he posted on Hope ( I swear, we didn’t plan this). Now, I gotta say, just as over the last decade I’ve grown incredibly fond of […]
— Kaci Hill in Nov 2011 —

The Making Of A Myth, Part 2

Fairy stories are for children. Or are they? J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy Stories” built an argument that challenged the usual assumptions. First, he believed that fairy stories had significance beyond entertainment.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in Nov 2011 —

Retelling Biblical Stories For A Modern Audience, Part 2

The ancient Jews loved to retell their Bible stories with embellishments. And they did so, not with a disdain for “the facts of history,†but rather with deep respect for the original message as they understood it.
— Brian Godawa in Nov 2011 —

The Making Of A Myth, Part 1

Tolkien is specific. Fairy stories are certain things and definitely not others. First they are stories about Faerie, “the realm or state in which fairies have their being,” though this realm contains much more than elves or fairies
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in Nov 2011 —

Retelling Biblical Stories For A Modern Audience, Part 1

The Bible doesn’t fear pagan imagination. Rather, it subverts and redeems it, using its motifs and baptizing them with altered subversive definitions that support Yahweh the true God against the false god Baal and other pagan deities in the ancient Near East.
— Brian Godawa in Nov 2011 —

The “Alien Work” Of God Part I

No, I’m not talking about this kind of alien work of God. Instead, I want to talk about how it seems that I’ve always had aliens on the brain. I mentioned two weeks ago that my earliest forays into writing […]
— John Otte in Nov 2011 —

Dark Is The Stain: Hallow’s Eve

I began this series because I wanted to explore the dark themes of Christian fiction. I don’t want to just discuss it; I want to touch it. I want light so bright that anything dark distracts, and darkness so black […]
— Kaci Hill in Nov 2011 —

Why I Wrote The DarkTrench Saga

Now that I’m done writing The DarkTrench Saga (from Marcher Lord Press), I’ll talk about it. The three-volume futuristic series has had some interesting criticisms, but surprisingly, the strongest reproaches have come from the Christian community.
— Kerry Nietz in Oct 2011 —

Shooting At Halloween Pumpkins

At Halloween, do demons really run wild over neighborhoods and souls? Or might Christians “demonize†decorations, to the glee of the actual Devil? This former pumpkin-“killer†explores our actual worst enemies, and the One Who defeated them.
— E. Stephen Burnett in Oct 2011 —

Dark Is The Stain: Chiaroscuro

Delving into Darkness Welcome to the new series! Church brat points to whoever knows which song “Dark is the Stain” comes from. I decided, in honor of the season, to go with a dark speculation of story. As Brian Godawa’s […]
— Kaci Hill in Oct 2011 —

Speculative Love, Part 6: Love Does Not Compute

By way of closing this series on love in speculative fiction, I wanted to talk briefly about a quality of love that makes it problematical for science fiction in particular: love is not logical.
— Fred Warren in Oct 2011 —

An Apologetic Of Horror, Part 3

The defense of horror and thriller movies in principle should not be misconstrued to be a justification for all horror and thriller movies in practice. It is the mature Christian who, because of practice, has his senses trained to discern good and evil in a fallen world.
— Brian Godawa in Oct 2011 —

An Apologetic Of Horror, Part 2

The portrayal of good AND evil, as well as their consequences, are two sides of God’s one honorable, pure, lovely, excellent, and praiseworthy truth. According to the Bible, pointing out wrong is part of dwelling on what is right, exposing lies is part of dwelling on the truth, revealing cowardice is part of dwelling on the honorable, and uncovering corruption is part of dwelling on the pure.
— Brian Godawa in Oct 2011 —
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