Podcast Episodes
Back to Search161. How Can We Celebrate the Restoration of Failed Franchises?
Imagine a mind virus has taken over people you love. You have fought the good fight. Now you’re tired and feel like retreating. You and some old frie…
3 years, 2 months ago
160. How Does ‘Cultural Christianity’ Harm and Help Stories?
Did you grow up in “cultural Christianity”? Do you think this background helped you love Jesus more, or drove you away from him? What would your neig…
3 years, 2 months ago
159. What If Your Genius Math Skills Got You in Trouble with the Mob? | Calculated with Nova McBee
What if you were a teenage prodigy who could use mathematics to predict the future? But finally your numbers-driven world collapsed into betrayal and…
3 years, 2 months ago
158. Can a Man-Made Lifeform Reflect God’s Glory? | Synapse with Steven James
Real life is already making fake “life” with artificial intelligence programs. But many science fiction writers have already rushed ahead to ask whet…
3 years, 2 months ago
157. Will We Get Superpowers After the Resurrection?
Last weekend we remembered not only Jesus Christ’s perfect sacrifice, but his resurrection—the same resurrection he has promised for all who receive …
3 years, 3 months ago
156. Why Does Sexualityism Threaten Christian Fiction? | with Bethel McGrew
“We come to it at last: the great battle of our time.” Last week we shared this metaphor, and since then the cultural struggles have heated up even m…
3 years, 3 months ago
155. How Might Sentimentalism Threaten Christian Fiction?
Today’s next Fantastical Foe doesn’t look that villainous. Instead she dresses up as whimsical kittens, cozy cottages, or obvious heroes and villains…
3 years, 3 months ago
154. What If You Had to Fake Being Genetically Modified? | Enhanced with Candace Kade
What if you had to survive in a futuristic East Asian world, ruled by a social credit system, by pretending you were genetically altered? Let’s break…
3 years, 3 months ago
153. When Can Deconstructionism Threaten Christian Fiction? | with Michael Young aka ‘Wokal Distance’
If a church or group of Christians hurt you, that is part of your origin story.[1. Photo by Karl Fredrickson on Unsplash.] True heroes, on their jour…
3 years, 4 months ago
152. How Can Christian Fantasy Fans Heal from Church Trauma? | with Marian Jacobs and L. G. McCary
The time has come to explore the wild lands. From legalism to worse attacks on God’s image in us, many Christian fantastical fiction fans have suffer…
3 years, 4 months ago