Into The Shadows: Why We Should Explore The Dark Side Of Fiction

The presence of the darkness points us to the light and the hope we find outside our miserable, messed up lives.
— Zac Totah in March 2017 —

Fiction Friday: Threadbare By Bethany A. Jennings

Bethany A. Jennings, whose name you might recognize because she’s won a few Spec Faith Writing Challenges, is a YA science-fiction and fantasy author, and a chronic night owl. She is endlessly passionate about the power of speculative fiction, both to shape hearts and cultures and to unveil hidden realities.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in March 2017 —

Opening Lines: Portals Into New Worlds

The opening line is the writer’s invitation to partake in this particular journey with these particular people in this particular place and time.
— Zac Totah in March 2017 —

March Madness And Quidditch

The key to Rowling’s worldbuilding is the consistency with which she infuses the different into the normal.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in March 2017 —

Let My People Think

In the lately-renewed controversy surrounding The Shack, two defenses of the book stand out to me.
— Shannon McDermott in March 2017 —

Everyone Needs A Sam Gamgee

Life can be miserable, but having someone there for you makes a world of difference. Like Frodo, everyone needs a Sam in his or her life.
— Zac Totah in March 2017 —

Family Christian Stores Close, But What Happens To Authors?

As the Christian retailer shutters 240 stores, author Patrick W. Carr asks what makes a business “Christian.”
— Patrick W. Carr in March 2017 —

When Fandoms Attack

We all have our fandoms, and other people have theirs.
— Shannon McDermott in March 2017 —

What We Learned From The Lego Batman Movie

Here’s a list of ten things we learned from Lego Batman.
— Zac Totah in February 2017 —

Sentimentality And Christian Fiction, A Reprise

The novel had a simple, even predictable plot, and the writing was serviceable at best. The characters were not complex, the theme undeniably obvious. Imagine my surprise, then, when I came to the climax of the story and cried.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in February 2017 —

Tips For Good Allegory

Many Christian writers think a good message will stand on its own, and maybe it used to, but that won’t fly today. Readers don’t want to buy sermons—or if they do, they won’t go to the fiction section! Fiction readers want to read books. Stories, tales, yarns that you’ve spun.
— Michael Blaylock in February 2017 —

The Purpose Of Christian Storytellers

Even if the CBA bombs, or if it survives and spec-fic (or other genres) struggles to grow like a rose in the arctic tundra, that’s not the end of the story. Because our focus should be on our purpose as storytellers.
— Zac Totah in February 2017 —

Christian Fiction Must Be . . . You Know, Christian; Or The Shack Is Back

Not only have writers and readers debated what constitutes Christian fiction, and particularly Christian speculative fiction, we’ve debated the rightness of and the need for good doctrine in our fiction.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in February 2017 —

Is Violence Biblical?

Brennan McPherson explores how violence in stories and Scripture compare with biblical commands.
— Brennan S. McPherson in February 2017 —

Eight Actions To Resurrect Christian Fiction

Christian fiction is dead. Long live Christian fiction. Yet it must be born again.
— E. Stephen Burnett in February 2017 —

Conversions And The Goal Of Christian Speculative Fiction

I don’t believe conversion stories are the problem in Christian fiction.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in February 2017 —

Fiction Friday – Excerpt, Her Dangerous Visions

On the world of Loam, an ancient evil threatens to conquer the portals that exist on every world, and only a young farm woman named Winter is given the power to destroy it.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in February 2017 —
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