Obsessed With The Rings of Power: A Modern Day Parable

Even though the first season is officially over, I still can’t look away! Like running to a horrific car accident that happened in front of my house, there is something spellbinding about watching the battle surrounding the Rings of Power. I am fascinated by all of the controversy swirling around the debate concerning Amazon’s billion-dollar film project. I can’t get…

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Why Fiction Should Be Taken More Seriously Among Christians

“There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.” — Os Guinnesse I recently came across an article by Mark Tapson who wrote: “The most compelling science fiction is that in which the core of the story is not the threat of hostile aliens or Death…

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In Through the Backdoor: Fiction’s Power to Open a Closed Heart

“My heart is stirred by a noble themeas I recite my verse for the king;my tongue is a pen of the skillful writer.” (Psalm 45:1) “Human beings are communal and seek to communicate persuasively with one another. Rhetoric is about persuasion…and that old Roman teacher Quintilian defines the rhetor as, “The good man speaking well.” (Jerry Root) I am the son…

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