"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." (Ray Bradbury, from Fahrenheit 451)
Wisdom From Kammbia 2.16: Can Christian Fiction Just Be Entertaining and Enjoyable?
by MHill | Jun 9, 2012 | Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I have a question for today's entry: Can Christian Fiction Just be Entertaining and Enjoyable? I know to some of you that is an incredulous question. However, I'm beginning to wonder if Christian Fiction can just be entertaining and enjoyable. Somehow, I feel on one...
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by MHill | Jun 7, 2012 | Quotes
“Fiction and poetry provide authors a unique way to glorify Christ that more overtly intellectual genres, like theology, simply can’t. These genres that aim directly for the heart and soul [...] do not argue for belief, they show what it looks like and make you feel...
Book Review 20: Sidney Sheldon’s Other Side of Midnight
by MHill | Jun 3, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Have you ever gone outside of your comfort zone? What did it feel like? And were you better for going outside of your comfort zone? Well, I did in reading The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon. This 1974 classic best-selling novel was something I would have...
Define ‘Christian Speculative Story’
by MHill | Jun 1, 2012 | Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Writing
Define ‘Christian Speculative Story’. A great article about Christian Speculative Fiction. What is it?
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by MHill | May 28, 2012 | Quotes
“I’m always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality.” — Flannery O’Connor
Wisdom From Kammbia 2.15: Is Reading A Story Only For the Middle Class?
by MHill | May 19, 2012 | Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"The general approach has been that if the middle class likes something, it is bad art. There is a snobbishness on the Left that is rarely noted but is one of the most significant animators of Leftism: a contempt for the middle class, and for middle America, that is...
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by MHill | May 17, 2012 | Quotes
"I know, I know, all Christian artists think they value both the craft and the content. But in my experience, they often fool themselves. When it comes time to make a decision for the story or the “message,” they will go with the message every time. Why? Because they...
Book Review 19: The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken
by MHill | Mar 6, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Christianity & Art, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Writing
I wrote a review for Imagine by Steve Turner and said that book along with the Bible and a couple of others that every Christian who loves the arts and literature should have in their library. Well, I'm adding The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken to that...
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by MHill | Mar 1, 2012 | Quotes
"All life, high and low, sordid and noble, vile and pure, is the province of art. Surely if the Bible is to be our standard we must admit that nothing lay outside the province of the inspired writers. A Christian writer cannot be a significant writer if his vision...