Fantastical Truth

Latest Episodes
255. What Are Space Westerns? | After Moses with Michael F. Kane
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
Though all their friends thought them enemies, fantasy and romance have grown into lovers, and now bear the new ship name of "romantasy."
248. What Are Fairy-Tale Retellings? | with Kendra E. Ardnek
For centuries readers have loved to re-read, retell, or research the classic stories of magical lands where Christlike good defeats evil.
247. How Does Lorehaven Curate Christian Fantastical Fiction?
Since 2018, Lorehaven.com creators have explored fantastical stories for Gods glory, and now weve upgraded our Library book search.
246. What is Soft Science Fiction? | Echo Nova with Clint Hall
Some harder sci-fi treats humans as spectators to science, while softer sci-fi may use "handwavium" to explain tech while focusing on heroes.