Isaiah 9 is a common advent text; it was a bit odd to see it as the assigned text for this Sunday. Nevertheless, in reading it through non-advent glasses I noticed it seems rather applicable to the current state of affairs around us. There’s enough doom and gloom to go around these days–from economics to politics to debt to public shootings. On and on it goes. If you’re caught in any of these sweeping movements, my heart goes out to you. Now, we don’t yet have Assyrians to contend with as Isaiah did, but still, the end of chapter 8 catches a bit …
Interview with Ted Dekker
Another interview from www.wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Ted Dekker (*Originally posted November 2006) What an honor to have novelist Ted Dekker as our third interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. As I’ve said elsewhere on this site, I feel that the work Ted has done with his fiction, in conjunction with Westbow’s (now Thomas Nelson Fiction’s) innovative marketing, have made great strides for all of us who care about Christian speculative fiction. And now the interview. WhereTheMapEnds: Catch us up with what’s going on in your life. Ted Dekker: I’ve buried myself in movies, primarily House, the movie, and setting up a system …
Behind the Story: The Sea People of Avonai
I love to read about how writers came up with their ideas for different characters, places, etc… and thought it would be fun to share here at MLP how I came up with some of my own. Enjoy! The Sea People of Avonai Readers have told me they love the sea people of Avonai from my book, Daughter of Light. For those of you who have not read it yet, they are a race of people who live along the eastern coast of the continent and are so connected to the sea that they can feel the sea inside their veins …
Interview with Jerry B. Jenkins
Please Welcome…Jerry B. Jenkins (*Originally posted October 2006) This month we have bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins as our interview guest. Personally, I feel that the work Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye did on the Left Behind series is the reason most Christian novelists are able to get paid to write their stories. That series opened so many doors for us. Suddenly publishers wanted Christian fiction. Companies began to publish fiction even if they’d never done so before. Editors got hired, fiction cover design became important, and many, many Christian novelists found publishers astonishingly open to what, not long before, …
Sunday Devotional–Psalm 146
Sharon’s done a great job grounding us in the Christian part of the Christian speculative fiction MLP specializes in through her Sunday devotionals. I’m here to spell her for August; she deserves the break after a job faithfully and well performed. Christian theology ought to transcend individuals, cultures, geography, era, personality, the any other categories or isms we can imagine, at least in its foundations, what C.S. Lewis termed mere Christianity, much like science or mathematics is commonly thought to do. In this, I’ll offer rough thoughts from my own Sunday morning teaching/preaching and perhaps a nod in the direction …
Daughter of Light Book Trailer
I always wanted to make a book trailer, so I finally learned how. It was a lot of fun! And here is the result: Daughter of Light movie HD I also just finished an interview with Keven Newsome, author of Winter, on balancing ministry, writing, and family. Check it out! www.kevennewsome.com
Interview with Frank Peretti
Here is another interview brought to you buy www.wherethemapends.com. Please Welcome…Frank Peretti (*Originally posted September 2006) What a joy and honor to have novelist Frank Peretti as our initial interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. As I’ve said elsewhere on this site, and as I’ll say to anyone who cares to listen, I consider Frank Peretti the father of Christian speculative fiction in the modern era. His novel This Present Darkness ushered in the modern age of Christian fiction in general. I personally love it that the novel that started it all was speculative. Mr. Peretti was gracious enough to participate in …
Interview with Morgan Busse
Time for another interview from www.wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Morgan Busse (*Originally posted May 2012) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction author Morgan Busse. While most authors begin their story with knowing they were destined to be a writer at an early age, such is not the case with Morgan. When she was young she wanted to be a Pegasus unicorn… She never managed to become that elusive magical creature. Instead, she grew up to be a wife and mother. She says that sometimes that experience is equally magical, and sometimes she wishes she had magic. (The “flick …
I have Stubbornness Issues
For any of you who have watched How to Train Your Dragon, you’ll recognize my post title (actually, the exact quote is “Vikings have stubbornness issues”). Lots of good quotes in that movie. If you haven’t seen it, you need to check it out. Anyway, this quote always stuck with me for two reasons: a) most of my family is Norwegian descent, thus making me viking, right? and b) I definitely have stubbornness issues. I have a hard time letting go. Sometimes that’s a good thing, and sometimes that’s a bad thing. How can stubbornness be good? It can give …