Jeffrey Overstreet was kind enough to link my post Slumdog Millionaire — Transcending Karma at his site a while back. It remains one of my most frequented posts. I find myself continually coming back its underlying thesis, which is this: A biblical worldview is, in the dramatic / narrative sense, more viable for an author [...]

Okay, so I’m taking my time on the new office. Did you see my skull stamps? It’s a bit of a kick I’ve been on. Well, the adjoining walls have been equally fun. I figured I’d go with a night-n-day motif. ‘Course, one wall is earth tones and the other is mauves and maroons. Hey, [...]

If reading is a journey of discovery, most readers can point to landmarks along the way. Whether it’s a matter of eloquence, conceptual lucidity, or just good timing, these books inevitably serve as signposts to our reading experience. These are the books you keep going back to — if not in thought, in actual re-reading [...]

That’s bites as in, she’s got choppers. Hey, zombies have stumbled their way into nearly every facet of pop culture. So why not Austen’s Victorian classic? I can see it now — bonnets, corsets and brain matter. Oh joy! From the promo for the upcoming P&P / horror mashup: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features [...]

Last week marked the beginning of Lent and, I must admit, I wouldn’t have known if not for one of my co-worker’s admonitions. He challenged our crew to refrain from eating meat for lunch. Of course, his appeal was met with sarcasm and snickers. But it’s what he said next that bothered me. Paraphrase: If [...]

Honesty is supposed to be one of the bedrocks of the Christian author. Then why don’t we allow our characters to be true to character? Intentionally scrubbing our cast members of their necessary nastiness can compromise a story. I mean, if we’re not telling the truth about our characters, what else are we fudging on? [...]

The words Obama and Antichrist, side-by-side, garner almost 1 million Google results. But why? Is this simply more evidence of shallow-minded, backwoods believers plying their paranoia? Or is there a fearful symmetry between those two figures that the world has yet to realize? When it comes to “Antichrist Watch”, the Church has an embarrassing history… [...]

Not long ago, I threatened to assemble a team of authors, editors and people in the know to answer some questions regarding Christian Speculative Fiction. Well, I’ve gone and done it! Frank Creed, Jeff Gerke and Becky Miller agreed to the interrogation aptly titled  Christian Speculative Fiction Panel — Pt. 1.  If you’re interested in [...]

After their landslide defeats in the White House and the Senate, who could blame the Republican Party for looking a little desperate. It’s unclear whether or not newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele is contributing to that desperation, or proactively steering clear of further icebergs. From the Washington Times’ piece entitled, GOP [...]