Yesterday I mentioned G. K. Chesterton’s opinion that pagans practiced demonic rites because they knew they were terrible. Today I will provide excerpts from The Everlasting Man where he wrote this. This passage also touches on the issue of magic in Christian fiction, which Becky Miller raised in her post. I believe that Christians who…
Tag: Christian fiction
CSFF Blog Tour: Weird R Us
“I’ve been coming to Montserrat for a few years now. On one early visit I actually arrived and realized I had returned before the last time I was here! From Brother Lazarus’ point of view, we had not yet had the previous visit.” She gave a little laugh. “That was a real mind bender. In…
CSFF Blog Tour: Creative License
Yesterday I wrote that, in Karyn Henley’s Angelaeon Circle, God is not really God and the angels are not really angels. Chawna Schroeder and Julie Bihn wrote similar criticisms, going into Scripture to show the difference between Karyn Henley’s angels and God’s. Becky Miller wrote that the angels in the Angelaeon Circle are invented beings…
CSFF Blog Tour: Eye of the Sword
Trevin, newly made a comain for the king, was sent on a quest to find allies for the kingdom. And the missing comains. And an oracle. And a magical harp. And himself. He quickly got sidetracked into the right direction. On a ranging search, from the mountains to the edge of the sea, he found…
CSFF Blog Tour: Night of the Living Dead Christian
If you discovered that one of your neighbors was a werewolf, what would you do about it? If you answered, “Move”, you are not Matt Mikalatos. He would decide to kidnap and cure the werewolf or, at last resort, kill him. Then – because silver bullets are so hard to buy and even harder to…
Not Too Great a Good
Some Christians place little value on art. But I’m not going to complain about them. I intend, rather, to complain about Christians who place too much value on art. I am thinking right now of Tony Woodlief and his article Bad Christian Art. I ran across this article while reading Sentimentality And Christian Fiction (an…
CSFF Blog Tour: Standing Firm (and Jumping)
[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] I had planned on writing about darkness in fiction once again, but after looking around the blog tour I decided to switch topics. Becky LuElla Miller and Thomas Clayton Booher both offered interesting thoughts about what, exactly, afflicted Sam Travis, his brother Tommy, and Captain Whiting. Booher wonders if there is an…
CSFF Blog Tour: Seeing in the Cave
Michael, who is 36, now often refers to gay life as a kind of cave … Had Michael been secretly unhappy as a gay man, and was he now projecting that onto all gay-identified people? I broached the question later that night at his small off-campus apartment, where we sat in his barren kitchen eating…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Art of the Point and the Point of the Art
The Strange Man opened with an old man telling the sad, strange tale of Joe Hallerin. At the end of the telling, he stood and roared the moral of his story: “And if the Strange Man ever come knockin’ at your door, don’t you ever, ever let him in!” A few chapters later, a mother…