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Song of the Selkies Wins Book of the Year at the 2024 Realm Awards
A princess disguised as a mystical water-creature impressed Realm Makers judges and won author Sarah Pennington the 2024 Book of the Year Award.
— E. Stephen Burnett in July 2024 —
Read My Eight Favorite Spooky Stories Suitable for Your Church’s Harvest Festival
From evil spirits to end-times Vikings, and from flooded spooks to weird vanishings, Christian fans can explore these hallowed haunts.
— L.G. McCary —
In Appreciation of Christian Supernatural Fiction Trailblazer Frank Peretti
I am thrilled that our Realm Makers community has the chance to hear from a man with a rich storytelling legacy to share.
— Rebecca P. Minor —
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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