Flash Fiction: Within Delight
Within Delight The Angel Winnriel shook the windswept sand from his beige kaftan. Keeping a wary eye open for Adam’s line, he traversed the dry […]
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February Update
Hello everyone! I’m sorry there has been such a gap in posts. The last several months have had many things pull my focus away from […]
A Christian’s Guide to World-building: Interspecies Romance Part 1
Aragorn and Arwen, Jake and Neytiri, Captain Kirk and the entire universe. Speculative fiction is filled with examples of interspecies romance. But would they be unbiblical? Come explore the topic with me in Part One of the moral implications of interspecies romances.
Article 13: Judged by Purpose
God will asses the behavior of all things, but he will not asses them each by the same standard. How he creates morality, how he creates law, is instead founded on their purpose, affliction, and maturity. Come see how this plays itself out in the Firmament’s Fourth Rule.
A Christian’s Guide to World-building: Considerations for Writing a Redemptive Experience
Every Christian has a point where they believe. Some are drastic like Paul, or too early to remember like John. Join me while I explore some considerations for evaluating or crafting your own.
Article 12: Authority
Authority, where does it come from, and to whom is it allowed? From Adam to the possibility of a Christian pantheon, come see why I consider it as having its own distinct classification In my final article on intelligent life
A Christian’s Guide to World-building: Allegory, Speculation, and The Heresy Trap
So you want to write the next great work of Christian fiction? Your intention will guide your style, likely in either Allegory or Speculative directions. But spiritual intent is no guard against your own bias. See how study avoids The Heresy Trap.
Article 11: What lies beyond Maturity
Article 11: What lies beyond Maturity Rule Three of the Firmament: All intelligent races in existence likely stand within one or more of these states […]
A Christian’s Guide to World-building: Violence, Gore, and the Squeamish Christian
As Christian Writers, should we to shy away from acts of violence in our works? What does it say about God when we do, and can it be used to say the right thing?
Article 10: In Absence of Adolescence
If at once it is accepted that a race might be New and Blameless, it begs the question, just what lies on the other side of such a category? Surely it is possible that a race might never be corrupted, as we were, and thus would develop in a wholly different way then our own. Come explore with me Maturing and Blameless
