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The State Of Christian Fantastical Fiction 3: Church Clarifications
[caption id="attachment_19430" align="alignright" width="400"] Old churches still show epic stained-glass artworks of the most fantastical Story of all. (Image credit: RGBStock)[/caption] More...
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How To Train Your Church Story Group
[caption id="attachment_19544" align="alignnone" width="700"] Providence Community Church on its last Sunday (Oct. 26, 2014) in a too-small space.[/caption] Among my acquaintances, friends and...
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Should Chris Pratt Guard The Evangelical Galaxy?
[caption id="attachment_20892" align="alignnone" width="700"] Original image source.[/caption] So Chris Pratt has made some comments about praying to God and love of country and things, according to a...
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Top Five Topics I Would Have Sneaked Into Conversations At Realm Makers
Tomorrow begins the world’s only real-world conference for Christian fans of fantastical worlds, Realm Makers. Because of time and other limitations, I cannot go to this world. However, I was able to...
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Christian Movies Can Show Better Sermons
Some of my recent conversations about Christian movies have helped me flesh out something. Often fans of the Christian movie-sermon--a Christian movie that serves as a 1.5-hour sermon...
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Seven Challenges For Christian Movie Critics and Fans
Do you like Christian movies pretty much as they are now and think we should have more? Do you dislike Christian movies as-is and wish they would either grow up or go away? Do you generally ignore...
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Seven More Challenges For Christian Movie Critics and Fans
We are getting more movies similar to Fireproof and God’s Not Dead—Christian-made movies that shake up our assumptions about Christianity and pop culture. We are also hearing more written criticisms...
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Carole McDonnell on Story Evangelism
Should Christian stories evangelize? The easy answer is: "yes, we should evangelize." Evangelism is often about making the world see our light...without us being aware of it. They see us warts and...
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It’s Not The Holiday You Think It Is
October 31---what's the first thing that comes to your mind? In all likelihood, it's Halloween, with it's spooky traditions and candy goodness. That is completely understandable because it's the...
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‘To Go Against The Church Is To Go Against God’
You may recognize the above quote from the movie Priest, a dystopian action/horror film based on a Korean comic book. It wasn't a particularly good film (or very successful financially) but it was fun...
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Story Evangelism: The Gospel Has Power In Realistic Fiction
From Story Evangelism: Top Myths About Christian Novels, E. Stephen Burnett: The first myth may be that Christian stories spend all or most of their time John 3:16-ing the reader. No, they don’t....
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Why Isn’t There More Christian Fantasy?
Recently someone[1. Fantasy novelist K.B. Hoyle.] asked in a Facebook group: Why isn’t there more Christian fantasy? In a few more words: Why don’t more Christian publishers want to publish...
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Why Do We Need Christian Fantasy?
Some readers of last week’s Why Isn’t There More Christian Fantasy? shared this response: Well, why do we need “Christian fantasy” anyway?[1. I am using “fantasy” as shorthand for any kind of...
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How Churches Can Engage Pokémon Go Players
If you’re active in your church, know this: Pokémon Go has come to you! In all likelihood, your place of worship hosts one or more game checkpoints—a physical representation of a GPS point that gamers...
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Six Christian White Magic Spells Worse Than Fantasy Magic
Recently a Facebook friend shared an example of Christian white magic in the real world. [caption id="attachment_3189" align="alignright" width="154"] You'll never guess what magic book it...
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Liturgy and Lunacy
It's a sad truth that the Church is a very fractured stained glass window. As with all major religions, Christianity has many denominations, sects, rituals, centers of leadership. It is not my place...
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