Screwtape, the fictional senior demon in Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, pontificates about how the mythologizing of science will ultimately lead adherents to demonic devotion, of course under another name, and create a new class of “scientist” known as “the Materialist Magician.” “I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise [...]
I received another nice review of Christian Horror: On the Compatibility of a Biblical Worldview and the Horror Genre, only this reader also challenged the conclusions I made in the Appendix On Ghosts. And as an “ex-medium,” I think she has good cause to. She wrote: My only issue with Christian Horror (as Mike predicted [...]
I become an insomniac shortly after I memorized the Nicene Creed. At that time, the Catholic mass in our town was still in Latin. Religion is hard enough to understand in one’s own language, much less some dusty medieval dialect. So reciting the Nicene Creed aloud in English was one of the few opportunities I [...]
Last weekend marked the end of a very busy year for me. No, the year’s not over yet. But I’m feeling like I can finally breathe a little. And concentrate on my next big writing project. That project is Book Two of my Reagan Moon novels. For reasons I’ll explain, I was unable to devote a [...]
Since I published Christian Horror, I’ve heard from a good number of believers who enjoy the horror genre, but think it’s either incongruous with their beliefs or are simply concerned with its perception among their evangelical friends. For example, I received this nice message from a Facebook friend: Hey Mike! I know you don’t know me, but thanks for [...]
It’s well known that high doses of fluoride can suppress testosterone production. Which is why I’m guessing that defenders of the recent New York Times’ piece, 27 Ways to Be a Modern Man, regularly brush their teeth. But why should an article on “modern men” need defending? I mean, everybody gets that “The Male Code” is something that needs “broken.” How could [...]
I received an interesting review of The Ghost Box the other day. The review was titled, “A great story, but it lacked the deeper meaning I was expecting” and followed by a three-star (actually 3.5, but you can’t do half-stars on Amazon) rating. The reader said, If I was giving a rating based on the [...]
As part of my ongoing series on Christian creatives in the general market, I was thrilled to catch up with author KEVIN LUCIA. Kevin’s stories have appeared in numerous outlets including Shroud magazine, Cthulu Mythos, and Shock Totem. His most recent novel, Through a Mirror, Darkly, not only has a killer cover, but has been receiving [...]
My workshop at the Realm Makers 2015 conference on “A Theology of Horror” was very well-attended. But, man, it just flew by. We had a few technical problems and less than an hour to cover 50-plus slides worth of material. I was speaking a hundred miles an hour and still only managed to cover half [...]
The most surprising thing about the recent release of War Room, the latest faith-based film made for Christian audiences, is not the critical drubbing it’s received from reviewers (Christian and mainstream alike), but how well it’s done at the box office. To the chagrin of its critics, in it’s second week of release, War Room secured the number [...]
