Fantastical Truth

Fantastical Truth


Latest Episodes

29. What If You Escaped from Captivity but Left Your Brother Behind? | These Nameless Things, with Shawn Smucker
August 18, 2020

Novelist Shawn Smucker joins us to explore memories and mystic challenges at life's margins.

28. How Should Christians Discern ‘The Chosen’ and Other Biblical Fiction?
August 11, 2020

Christians must think differently not only about popular streaming series "The Chosen" but about biblical fiction as a genre.

27. What Wackiness Awaits in the Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle? | with Bill Myers
August 04, 2020

Bill Myers shares his incredible worlds of Wally McDoogle, McGee and Me, and many other stories for kids and adults.

26. How Do We Defeat the Top Seven Myths about The Chronicles of Narnia? Part 2
July 28, 2020

Did C. S. Lewis doom Susan, bring Emeth to heaven, fill Narnia with allegories, or make it a "safe" series? We explore these four myths.

25. Which Christian Fantastical Books Won Big at the 2020 Realm Awards?
July 21, 2020

We just returned from the Realm Makers conference with new award-winners and breaking news about next year's event.

24. How Do We Defeat the Top Seven Myths about The Chronicles of Narnia? Part 1
July 14, 2020

Do the Chronicles of Narnia show random myths? Are they just children's stories? Should we only sort them by chronological order?

23. What If You Could Turn Stories into Sculptures? | The Weaver Trilogy, with Lindsay A. Franklin
July 07, 2020

Stephen and Zack invite The Weaver Trilogy author Lindsay A. Franklin to explore her fantasy series about Tanwen, the girl who literally weaves stories.

22. How Do Christians Discern UFO Accounts in Light of Scripture?
June 30, 2020

Zack and Stephen explore UFO sightings, alien beliefs, and how Christians can respond to the notions of sentient life beyond our planet.

21. In a Blind World, What If Only One Boy Could See? | For Whom the Sun Sings, with W. A. Fulkerson
June 23, 2020

Stephen and Zack are joined by W. A. Fulkerson, whose novel For Whom the Sun Sings just released this spring.

20. What if a Space Plague Turned the Amish into Zombies? | clip from Amish Zombies from Space
June 16, 2020

Preview chapter 8 of Amish Zombies from Space, the audiobook, written by Kerry Nietz and read by Randy Streu.