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For many years before I started writing short stories, I worked on a nonfiction manuscript that spoke of the same gospel truths, that told God’s story in four basic chapters, and revealed how much His story has always “showed up” in other stories. The manuscript also included my story, how I came to faith, and…

We laid out the plot of the movie Interstellar last time. A plight of dust has struck the earth and by all accounts will be fatal. What could be more important than doing everything necessary to find another habitable world and getting as many people as possible there, before the earth dies? The answer is…

We finished last time with the movie A Beautiful Mind, which strikingly made the point that love conquers all, not wisdom. Before long I hope to speak more of our greatest dilemmas, what the Fall did to us and exactly what we suffer from. But I’ve been having far too good of a time citing…

In the last two newsletters we have been discussing the movie A Beautiful Mind. It is based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel prize mathematician who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia. Before jumping back into the story, I want to remind you again of the basic premise here, of the reason I write this…

Last time we began with the movie A Beautiful Mind. It falls into a category of story we are calling: The working of God’s redemptive grace from one person to another. There are many stories that focus on the relationship between two people, and by the conclusion, God’s redemptive grace has transformed them both. To…

I promised a new story this time and it’s an excellent example of a particular type of story — those in which God works in our lives through the words and actions of other people. Let’s call this category: The working of God’s redemptive grace from one person to another. The relationship between these two…

For the last several newsletters we discussed the movie Signs by M. Night Shymalan and demonstrated that although a storyteller can claim to not believe in the God of the Bible, he can still write a very touching story about the loss of faith in the midst of inexplicable tragedy, and then know the perfect…

For the last two times we have been discussing the movie Signs by M. Night Shymalan. I hope you have thought about what I asked you last time:  If you were God and you wanted to speak to Graham (who lost his faith because the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death were so unlikely), what might…