Love Transforms the Beloved in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Stories

This fairy tale famously shows true beauty conquering a beastly form, but the original story worked a little differently. —Elijah David in August 2020

Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Newest Season Executes like Modern Day Parables

Season Two of Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone executes well the tradition of multi-layered storytelling. Still, these modern-day stories lack the solution-oriented parables of Christ. —Parker J. Cole in August 2020

What Jordan Peele’s New ‘The Twilight Zone’ Teaches about God and Imagination

Unlike Rod Serling’s narrator, who shows a problem and only observes the story’s end, God chose to step into the Twilight Zone with us. —Parker J. Cole in June 2020

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. —E. Stephen Burnett in March 2020

On Our New Podcast Episode: We Didn’t Watch ‘The Witcher’ So We Hired a Friend Who Did

We interviewed Jason Morehead, who had some concerns about Netflix’s “mature” fantasy drama “The Witcher.” —E. Stephen Burnett in February 2020

Do You Believe?

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

These Are the Top Ten Most-Read SpecFaith Articles in 2019

From “Game of Thrones” critiques to YA Twitter, writing challenges, and Ted Chiang (again?), here are the top-read SpecFaith articles in 2019. —E. Stephen Burnett in January 2020

What Was God Thinking?

We humans, as rational beings, want everything to make sense. It’s frustrating that such “nonsense” winds up being true. —Mark Carver in December 2019

The Unwanted Passenger

No matter where people go in this universe, they bring along an unwanted passenger: their own sin natures. —Mark Carver in November 2019

Would God Come Along Too?

What if we were to make a break for it and leave this rock for another? Would God be invited along for the ride? —Mark Carver in February 2019

Are All Fandoms Created Equal?

How are sports and fictional fandoms alike? How are they different? —Mark Carver in February 2019

Why Batman Can’t Save Gotham

What Gotham needs is not a dark knight, but a hero who operates by a different code. —Daniel Whyte IV in January 2019

Io: Pest Control

So how does speculative entertainment treat the problem of these supposed human pests? Get rid of ’em. —Mark Carver in January 2019

EStephenBurnett.com: Week One of Weekday Blogging, Complete

On this new web portal, explore topics like Aquaman’s “cheesiness,” the widow’s mite misinterpreted, and a weird search term. —E. Stephen Burnett in January 2019

Thankful for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special?

The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is widely considered one of the worst pieces of entertainment of all time. Yet even it leaves me reasons to be thankful. —Travis Perry in November 2018

One in a Million

What if parallel worlds do exist? Does that mean there is a world out there where Adam didn’t sin? —Mark Carver in October 2018

Is Netflix ‘Not Safe, but Good’ for Narnia?

Netflix had acquired all rights to make films based on C. S. Lewis’s magical world of Narnia. Let us take the adventure that Aslan sends us. —E. Stephen Burnett in October 2018

‘Altered Carbon’ Looks Too Long Into the Abyss

Altered Carbon is an outstanding piece of storytelling, but does the sci-fi drama fail to heed its own warnings? —Randy Streu in July 2018

Why Rick Created Froopyland: Exploring ‘Rick and Morty’

In ‘Rick and Morty’, Rick’s and Beth’s dysfunctional relationship ultimately leads to a twisted kind of love. —Parker J. Cole in March 2018

Why Rick Killed King Jellybean: Exploring ‘Rick and Morty’

Parker J. Cole explores how “Rick and Morty,” a show about nothing, talks about everything. —Parker J. Cole in March 2018
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