Fantastical Truth

Fantastical Truth


Latest Episodes

258. How Would We Restore Disney Film Franchises?
April 15, 2025

After fractured fairy-stales, flippant super-capers, and Stalled Wars, here's how we could rebuild the fallen castles of this media Babylon.

257. By Aslan’s Mane, is Netflix Really Casting a Lady as the Lion?
April 08, 2025

The headline sounded like an April Fools prank. Then others confirmed it and fans raised the uproar. Heres why it matters that Aslan is male.

256. When Have Newer Christian Authors Explored Mars?
April 01, 2025

From a wheelchair-wielding robo-pioneer to the Ares 10 mission and other astronauts, many faithful storytellers settled on our sister planet.

255. What Are Space Westerns? | After Moses with Michael F. Kane
March 25, 2025

After the first age of rocketry, some cowboy heroes traded their six-shooters for rayguns and rode beyond Earth to settle a new genre frontier.

254. Who Would Win in a Fight Between Spaceships and Dragons? | Embergold with Rachelle Nelson
March 18, 2025

Fantasy has magical beasts while science fiction has fantastical vehicles, and both have their biblical redemptive qualities. Now, let them fight.

253. How Do Classic Sci-Fi Novels Explore the Planet Mars?
March 11, 2025

Earths neighbor is a frozen desert, but it has inspired many fantastical storiesfrom adventures to big ideas, hard science, and human nature.

252. What if Space Missionaries Fought the Secular State? | Above the Circle of Earth with E. Stephen Burnett
March 04, 2025

Stephen and Zack explore the Christian heroes, challenging ideas, and speculative science of this possible future when oversheltered believers resist a one-world CAUSE.

251. Could a Cultural ‘Vibe Shift’ Advance Christian-Made Fiction?
February 25, 2025

Storytellers who hope for gospel witness to the world must discern today's rising audience of cultural conservatives who like some biblical ideas.

250. How Does Scripture Reveal the God of Story? | with Daniel Schwabauer
February 18, 2025

When readers treat the Bible as a resource for carving out doctrine-blocks or extracting shiny morals, we miss the Hero and true gospel Story of the Scripture.

249. What is ‘Romantasy’? | with Parker J. Cole
February 11, 2025

Though all their friends thought them enemies, fantasy and romance have grown into lovers, and now bear the new ship name of "romantasy."