A Ghost Story Of Christmas

The ghostly element of A Christmas Carol is powerfully used for the story’s real purpose. —Shannon McDermott in December 2015

Seeking Peace In A World Of Strife

Conflict is the backbone of any story. Sometimes it involves a desperate quest to save the world. Other times it dives into the murky waters of relationship problems. Even if a story doesn’t contain explosions, high-speed chases, epic battles, or […] —Zac Totah in December 2015

The True Story That Reads Like Speculative Fiction

It is Christmas, or nearly so, and naturally my focus turns to the Christmas story. The true, Biblical story. I understand that many people in the world look at the accounts recorded in Luke 1 and 2 and Matthew 1 and 2 as myth. And with good reason. Those passages read like speculative fiction. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in December 2015

The God Of The Impossible

The Christmas story is both the proof that God can do the impossible and the declaration that the God who is Lord of the impossible accomplishes the miraculous. And speculative fiction expands readers’ thinking so that we can more easily come to grips with this truth. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in December 2015

Fiction Friday – By Divine Right

The Darkwater Claims All Who Enter It. All But One. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in December 2015

Mayhem And Its Meaning, A Reprise

Why does mayhem play such an important role in speculative fiction? The clearest and best explanation is that these stories reveal the great struggle of the world—the struggle between the rebel Satan and God. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in November 2015

Receive Fantastical Stories With Thanksgiving

Four silent objections may get in the way of thanksgiving to God for fantastical stories. —E. Stephen Burnett in November 2015

Introducing Spec Faith’s Newest Team Member

Zac is most active on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, and he’s also on Instagram and Goodreads. Of course, he’d love to have more visitors to his website. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in November 2015

Readers, You Are The Gatekeepers Of Great Writing

In an age of digital and self-publishing, we have met the story gatekeepers, and they are us. —Rachel Starr Thomson in November 2015

Story Evangelism: The Gospel Has Power In Realistic Fiction

Conversion scenes don’t automatically make good stories, but good stories can show the gospel at work. —Austin Gunderson in November 2015

12 Fatal Flaws Of Fiction Writing: Weak Construction

Stories can fall apart from weak construction, and Rachel Starr Thomson offers better building tips. —Rachel Starr Thomson in November 2015

Hope And Hopelessness In Speculative Fiction

When the imagination is separated from spiritual reality, it seems to stall on the bleak and the horrible. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in November 2015

Our Own Subgrene

Christians have created our own subgenre of speculative fiction: End Times fiction. I am going to state, right here at the beginning, that I have never really cared for it. —Shannon McDermott in November 2015

The Art And Craft Of Glorifying God

The belief that “good art,” simply because it is good art, glorifies God, is a fallacy. Lots of artistic expression has a worldview contrary to God. Contrary, not neutral, and certainly not God glorifying. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in November 2015

Spec Faith To Partner With Christian Geek Central

A few months later I discovered SpecFaith and immediately became excited over the kind of thoughtful content produced here. I noticed that SpecFaith did not have a presence on Youtube and almost instantly saw potential for a God-honoring partnership. —Paeter Frandsen in November 2015

‘To Go Against The Church Is To Go Against God’

In Hollywood, the church is the ultimate “no-fun zone.” Cold, calculating, powerful, vigilant, a wet blanket on anything pleasurable. An institution to be rebelled against. —Mark Carver in November 2015

The Truth And Story

What Lewis did was alter my understanding [of reality] by giving his own imaginative version that contradicted everything I’d thought before. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in November 2015

R. J. Anderson on Story Evangelism

“Evangelism … takes place between believers meeting non-believers face to face, and interacting with them. … A book cannot take the place of a person.” —R. J. Anderson in October 2015

Triumph or Havoc

The Scientific American published an interview with an astronomer who had written a book on how the existence of aliens affects religion. If, you know, aliens really do exist. —Shannon McDermott in October 2015

It’s Not The Holiday You Think It Is

A corrupt church and priests interested in lining their own pockets weren’t concerned with trivialities such as what the Bible actually said, so salvation by faith alone was not a concept widely known. The idea of “no distinction [between believers] … but Christ is all and in all” was for all practical purposes unheard of. —Rebecca LuElla Miller in October 2015
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