Christian Fiction

Have you read any George Williams? He's a great Christian writer from the early 20th century. It's very British, but that's a good thing.

Fr Dn Kevin

Francine Rivers is Protestant (Most) Protestants don't believe that Mary remained a virgin throughout her entire life....And....well - I'm assuming that she probably doesn't see anything wrong with it at all - as I think she is writing it for a Protestant audience. And I'm not saying this to say I told you so Just saying from a person who was previously Protestant - if I were to write that - I probably wouldn't even have thought about the fact that that would bother other people. Should I have? Yes - but do most? I think with most Protestants - that doesn't even enter into their radar.

Having said that - I quite agree that it is frustrating that so many inspirational/Christian authors that I used to love no longer can be looked at as being theologically correct......Oh well :: shrug ::

Yeah, that's the Protestant viewpoint. Evangelicals write for evangelicals, and she probably has no idea that she'd be offending people

I like her stuff, or I did. I haven't read any for a while, I should see if I can still read her!

I liked the Voice in the Wind books, and The Scarlet Thread. Oh and her little novellas on different men in the Bible - made me think more about the people who were 'behind' the great ones - Aaron, Prince Jonathan, Amos, etc etc

Kind of off topic but not worth its own thread but I'd love to see a movie with Michael Clarke Duncan as St. Moses. That would be as awesome as it is unlikely.

Now, to the OP, I used to like Frank Peretti but haven't read any Christian fiction in a long time. I wish there was more out there for apostolic Christians.

What do you all think about fictionalized accounts of the lives of Saints? By fictionalized, I mean adding fictionalized filler material based on how the Saint is known to have lived but not stretching their character beyond what is known.

Fine, but can we possibly put at least one ninja in there?

Cyprian31 said:

Fine, but can we possibly put at least one ninja in there?

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I'd prefer a ninja pirate.

As for the topic of Christian fiction, I've never really cared much for Christian fiction. There have been a couple books that were sold specifically as Christian fiction that I thought were decent, the stories are all too often far too contrived in my opinion.

The only author I've read that writes 'Christian' fiction, and most of the time he isn't really listed as a "Christian author", is Stephen Lawhead. His books often have a Christian undercurrent to them but it isn't nearly as in-your-face as many Christian authors make their Christian messages. The two exceptions possibly being his trilogy dealing with the crusades and his book "Byzantium". Both of which deal explicitly with characters/concepts pulled directly from Christianity. He also has a story based on St. Patrick, but I haven't read that so I cannot comment. I'm currently reading his rework of the Robin Hood story, pretty good so far in my opinion. Now if only the final book in the trilogy would get released. Then again the second book only got released a couple months ago so it'll probably be awhile before the final book comes out.