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John Bunyan – This Is No Tall Tale

We think of speculative fiction as a fairly new art form. After all, who ever heard of anyone writing about fantasy worlds and that sort of thing in, say, the 17th century? · Yvonne Anderson

How Fantastical Stories Explore Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Beyond

Read “deleted scenes” from an early manuscript for The Pop Culture Parent, which had more to say about specifically fantasy fiction! · E. Stephen Burnett

C. S. Lewis and Sub-creation

Lewis and Tolkien both claimed that fantasy could reveal Truth in a way that reality fiction could not. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

‘Antifa-ntasy’ Puts God in a Box

In 1982, fantasy equaled Satanism. In 2016, Stranger Things received praise from Relevant and Christianity Today. What happened? · Christopher D. Schmitz

Autotomy–And a Left-Handed Way to Get to My Point

Autotomy–or is that Autonomy? Or how self-cutting leads indirectly to a point about Christians writing speculative fiction… · Travis Perry

Shallow Reasons To Support ‘Narnia’ 2

Why do some force shallow, over-“spiritual” allegories on the “Narnia” stories — to the extent of claiming Aslan’s tent equals the Tabernacle, the Professor’s house equals the church, or the wardrobe equals the Bible? · E. Stephen Burnett

Ancient Realms Of Imagination

The stories that I read while growing up inspired me to be a better person–to better follow God and to deal more rightly with other people. A good story isn’t just penned or typed; it grows out of the heart. · Scott Appleton

The Point And Purpose Of Reading Fiction

We frequently discuss whether or not we should expose ourselves to “gritty” stories about the garbage dump of life. Must we wallow in the mud, or can we choose instead to read stories that evoke truth and beauty? A tangential issue that might help with that question is this: are truthful stories beautiful (artistic) simply because of their truth? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Randy Alcorn on Story, Courage, and The New Earth, Part 1

Author Randy Alcorn shares how he came to love God-honoring sci-fi and fantasy stories, how such stories point us toward eternity, and why some Christians still tend to avoid visionary novels. · Randy Alcorn

Guest Blog: C. S. Lakin

C. S. Lakin is the author of the new fantasy series The Gates of Heaven published by AMG/Living Ink. Book One, The Wolf of Tebron, released this fall and will be the early January feature of the CSFF Blog Tour […] · C.S. Lakin

Peeling Back The Veil

Run for the hills! It’s Tuesday again! Grab some snacks, this will be a long one. Thanks to everybody who commented on my stories last week (and for those of you lurkers who looked at them).  There were quite a […] · Stuart Stockton