Song of the Selkies Wins Book of the Year at the 2024 Realm Awards

—E. Stephen Burnett in July 2024

Read My Eight Favorite Spooky Stories Suitable for Your Church’s Harvest Festival

In Appreciation of Christian Supernatural Fiction Trailblazer Frank Peretti

A Scientific Theory of Magic

This post ponders what would it mean if magic were simply an undiscovered form of energy. How would known physics affect practical magic? —Travis Perry in January 2021

Do You Believe?

what kind of miracle would it take for people these days to truly believe? —Mark Carver in January 2020

Seven Ways to Deal With the Problem Magic Poses Christian Fantasy Writers

What is really is the problem with magic according to the Bible? How (and why) can Christian fantasy writers deal with this problem when creating stories? —Travis Perry in September 2019

From the Archives: How Dark is Too Dark?

How dark is too dark? Is it permissible to include horrific and explicit elements in a story intended for the Christian market? —Mark Carver in July 2019

Children Don’t Need Magic: A Response to Joshua Gibbs

Magic is fun in fiction, but children don’t actually need magic to experience the awe of the Creator. —Mark Carver in July 2019

Bird Box: Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid

Is the only way to survive life’s brutal realities to willfully blind oneself to the truth, as in “Bird Box”? —Mark Carver in January 2019

The Forest for the Trees

There is an eagerness in the human imagination to revere the “spirits of the forest.” —Mark Carver in April 2018

Writing Supernatural Stories

Is it OK to use real supernatural beings in a fictitious way in order to create an entertaining story? —Rebecca LuElla Miller in April 2018

Ghosts . . . In The Bible?

Ghost stories, to me, are much like demon and angel stories. Real angels and demons do exist, but few stories stick to the Biblical narrative that show us what those supernatural beings are like. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in October 2017

No Other Gods

I didn’t catch Tom Cruise’s The Mummy in theaters, so I watched it on DVD when it came out last week. It wasn’t as awful as I was expecting, though it doesn’t hold a candle to the Brendan Fraser films […] —Mark Carver in October 2017

Powers and Principalities

Make no mistake: magic is very real, and none of it is good. —Mark Carver in July 2017
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