Christians and Fantasy
While doing some searches related to an upcoming book review, I stumbled across (or was led to) The Christian Guide to Fantasy. It’s been around for ten years now, but this was the first time for me. While it is mostly inactive, the archived material is great.
I’ve struggled with these issues for a long time, trying to reconcile my desire to write fantasy with a Christian worldview (and to avoid writing the in-your-face pap that unfortunately is what most modern Christian fantasy is). Often, all I had to hold on to was ‘Tolkien and Lewis were devout Christians. If they can, why can’t I?’ This essay puts my reasoning into words. And the explanation of magic was right what I needed to hear.