Christian fantasy
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Book Reviews100 Cupboards: the Graphic Novel
by N.D. Wilson illustrated by Forrest Dickison2026 / 240 pagesRating: GREAT When Henry York’s parents mysteriously disappear, the 12-year-old is sent to live with his…
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Book ReviewsOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: the Graphic Novel
by Andrew Peterson2026 / 224 pagesRating: Great The Wingfeather Saga is getting the graphic novel treatment and the first in the series is both more…
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Book ReviewsThe Peleg Chronicles
This one sat on my shelf for months because a glance at the back had me dismiss it. The series was touting what it didn’t…
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Book ReviewsHelmer in the Dragon’s Tomb
by S.D. Smith 2025 / 243 pages Rating: GOOD/great/gift Helmer is a young rabbit who wants to farm the same land his family has been…
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Book ReviewsThe Unlikely Intrusion of Adams Klein
by John Greco 2025 / 288 pages Rating: good/GREAT/gift Adams Klein is a pretty ordinary 14-year-old, except, maybe for that “s” at the end of…
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Articles – BooksWhy Reformed theology writes better fantasy
Reformed theology – with its doctrines of Man’s total depravity, God’s covenant, His sovereignty, and costly grace – gives fantasy writers what most Christian fantasy…
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AnimatedThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1979)
Animated / Children 1979 / 95 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is the oldest surviving film version of C.S. Lewis’s famous classic. It is absolutely fascinating…
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FamilyThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Family / Drama 2005 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 For those who have not read the C.S. Lewis book of the same name, this takes…
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Adult fictionThe Dark Harvest Trilogy
The Dark Faith 368 pages / 2012 by Jeremiah W. Montgomery The Scarlet Bishop 304 pages / 2013 by Jeremiah W. Montgomery The Threefold Cord…
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Book listsChristian fantasy after Tolkien: a Top 10
If your kids are just gobbling books, and have already worked their way through all 7 books of Lewis’s Narnia, then what’s next? If you’ve…
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Book ReviewsIn the Hall of the Dragon King
by Stephen Lawhead 1982 / 370 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an old-fashioned fantasy tale, with a loosely Christian underpinning. Quentin is a young man…
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Book ReviewsOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
by Andrew Peterson 284 pages / 2008 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT My wife hasn’t read this book, but she enjoyed it too. As I made my way…
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Book ReviewsThe Bark of the Bog Owl
by Jonathan Rogers 2014 / 248 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Our hero, Aidan Errolson, is a medium-sized twelve-year-old with dreams that are far bigger. When we…
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Book ReviewsThe Hobbit: an illustrated edition of the fantasy classic
by J.R.R. Tolkien adapted by Charles Dixon illustrated by David Wenzel 1990 / 133 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT There’s a hierarchy so unfailingly true it could…
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Adult fictionDawn of Wonder
by Jonathan Renshaw 2015 / 708 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This might, at first glance, seem to be your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-dares-girl-to-jump-off-of-a-thousand-foot-high-bridge-into-the-icy-cold-stream-below-and-girl-shows-him-up-by-actually-doing-it story. And, as many a…
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Adult non-fictionThe hidden meaning of “The Chronicles of Narnia”
What if there was a secret cipher that unlocked a meaning behind C. S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia? What if Lewis used a concealed template…
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AnimatedThe Lord of the Rings animated “trilogy”
Peter Jackson wasn’t the first to put J.R.R. Tolkien’s books on film. Two decades before the first of Jackson’s live-action/CGI films hit theaters, three animated versions were…
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Adult fictionThe Seraph’s Path
by Neil Dykstra 2019 / 475 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Maybe I should have gotten someone else to review this, what with me sharing the same…
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MagazineFeb 2015 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: Mark Driscoll is back / Candace Cameron on being a “submissive” wife / Evaluating others: who is your friend? / After C.S. Lewis and J.R.R….