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World Magazine ^ | olasky

[flowerplough]

Six new novels show how Christian fiction has matured in recent years.

Inspirational fiction is the name given to the broad category of books published by evangelical publishers. It encompasses everything from Amish "bonnet" fiction to modern romance and thrillers. Some of the books include explicit Christian messages and others don't. Over the past decade Christian fiction has matured, with better-written books less likely to be merely vehicles for a heavy-handed message. The following half-dozen recent novels will give you a sense of the variety of books included in this genre.

His Other Wife by Deborah Bedford (FaithWords) is a modern family drama that begins when a husband declares to his wife that he's fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. He goes on to remarry and build a new life, while his wife and their son put their lives back together. Things seem fine, but the son is angry at his father and feels responsible to make his mother happy. When the two families come together at the son's high-school graduation, jealousies, unmet expectations, and suppressed frustrations explode with tragic consequences. The book deals honestly with human frailty, different forms of idolatry, and the need to trust God.

The Sweetest Thing by Elizabeth Musser (Bethany House) centers on two teenage girls from different backgrounds who become friends in Atlanta during the Great Depression. Their lives intersect when Dobbs, a strange girl from Chicago whose father is a revival preacher, comes to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle. When Perri's banker father commits suicide, Dobbs knows instinctively how to comfort her. She regales her friends at their exclusive girls school with stories of the things she's seen at her father's revival meetings, and they respond. Meanwhile her own faith is tested.

[KentuckianaHeadhunter]

“The Revelation Gate” is another good new Christian Author release. My wife, who does not zip through any book, was hooked right off the bat and finished in a day.

http://www.authorbrianthompson.com/Books.html

[I still care]

Thanks for the link.

Totally off topic, I saw this seminar at the link, and I would have loved to have gone. It’s a meeting of Behe, Ross, and Mortensen (Intelligent Design Theistic Evolution, Old Earth Creationism, Young Earth Creationism) Perhaps I will order the DVDs.

http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/inthebeginning

[Ransomed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe

Freegards

[Vigilanteman]

Hollywierd and the major New York publishing houses have been pushing their brand of cultural depravity for years-- single motherhood is glorious, power is intoxicating, teenagers can't control their gonads anymore than dogs in heat, etc.

If you don't allow your brain to get washed by the virtues of Christian culture (or Judaism or Buddhism, if that is more your up of tea), then it will get polluted by the sewer pipe from New York, Hollywood and other centers of cultural depravity.