The other day, while I was browsing Plugged In, I came across a review for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Curious, I opened it up and came across this: Continuing his Christ-like course, Harry dies and is then given the opportunity to return from the dead to finish the fight against evil….
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Interview with Don Veinot, Part II
As promised, here is the second half of the interview with Don Veinot, one of the authors of A Matter of Basic Principles. Links, as well as an introduction, can be found with the first half. ATI stands for Advanced Training Institute, a Gothard organization that provides curriculum, conferences, training, etc. Q: Another important subject…
Interview with Don Veinot, Part I
Ronald Allen once called Bill Gothard “a living Christian institution”. Some would find this a bit of an overstatement. Some would ask, “If he’s a living Christian institution, how come I never heard of him?” But others would understand what Dr. Allen means. Bill Gothard’s organization has existed, under some name, for fifty years. The…
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: When Satan Attacks
Have I said how much I like Greg Mitchell’s commentary on The Strange Man? I ought to, because I am about to quote it again. Here he writes about the end of chapter 4: So, this is probably THE most controversial and debated scene in the book among readers and even my editors. Lindsey cries…
Violence in the Bible and other Christian books
A little while ago, the discussion on the CSFF blog tour turned to the violence, or lack of it, in Donita Paul’s Dragons of the Valley. Becky LuElla Miller wrote a couple posts about violence in Christian fiction, and particularly fantasy. I’ve decided to throw in a couple thoughts of my own. It can be…
CSFF Blog Tour: A Judge, a Priest, a Paladin …
One of the main characters of the Chiril Chronicles is Jayrus, dragon-keeper and prince of something. A wizard proclaims him to be Chiril’s Paladin. What is a paladin? According to my Dictionary, it is “a champion of a medieval prince”. According to Donita K. Paul, it’s some sort of spiritual leader who, by the by,…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Wolf, the Lion, and the Messiah
Yesterday I said that there is a strong Christian aspect to The Wolf of Tebron. I wrote a little about it, but there is much more that can be said. Today I hope to say some of it. I’m afraid that, in order to discuss certain elements of the book, I’m going to have to…
The Pardon of Christmas
Here is a Christmas poem by G. K. Chesterton. Comments at the end. The Pardon of Christmas Roofed in with the snows of December It returns, it is left to us yet —A day: with one day to remember. —A day: with long days to forget. Undeterred, recurring, soft-footed It comes down o’er the world,…