Fantastical Truth

Fantastical Truth

Lorehaven explores fantastical stories for God’s glory: fantasy, sci-fi, and beyond.

Episodes

267. What If a Bad Father Fought to Be a Hero? | The Hole-Man with Dan Daetz

June 17, 2025 • 67 mins
Men may defend their families and nations by flying amazing airships, yet struggle with the temptations and tough decisions of earthly callings.
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266. How Do You Assemble a New Expo for Christian Fandoms? | with Scott Minor

June 10, 2025 • 85 mins
Hear the backstory of Realm Makers, from its 2013 origin as a fantastical writers conference to the new 2025 Realm Makers Expo coming this July to Grand Rapids.
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265. How Can We Shine the Gospel at the Realm Makers Expo?

June 4, 2025 • 62 mins
Christian-led conferences attract saints as well as nonbelievers who like wholesome stories, making them fantastic fields for creative missions.
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264. Which Stories Will Last Forever in New Earth?

May 27, 2025 • 74 mins
God likes the physical world He created, and that’s why He will redeem human subcreations for eternity, including fantastical novels we enjoy for His glory.
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263. What is Time-Travel Romance? | Every Hour Until Then with Gabrielle Meyer

May 20, 2025 • 52 mins
Some heroines need no machines or solar slingshots to awaken in a romantic past and discover true love or deeper truths about the Lord.
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262. How Do Great Stories Train Students to Follow Jesus as Adults? | with Dr. Robert Sloan

May 13, 2025 • 65 mins
Just in time for graduation season, the Houston Christian University president tells of stories that really matter to children and students.
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261. Why Do We Love The Magician’s Nephew?

May 6, 2025 • 47 mins
Seventy years after C. S. Lewis’s sixth Chronicle of Narnia released, we recall the reasons we love this tale of magic rings and other worlds.
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260. How Do Great Stories Show Both Law and Grace?

April 29, 2025 • 74 mins
Shallow fictions insult the work of Christ by implying we can cheapen the law to make ourselves better, or cheapen grace to save others.
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259. What is Biblical Fiction?

April 22, 2025 • 72 mins
Christian critics toss tomatoes at this newly popular genre. But biblical fiction isn't meant to preach, only to illustrate the Scripture we honor.
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258. How Would We Restore Disney Film Franchises?

April 15, 2025 • 69 mins
After fractured fairy-stales, flippant super-capers, and “Stalled” Wars, here's how we could rebuild the fallen castles of this media Babylon.
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257. By Aslan’s Mane, is Netflix Really Casting a Lady as the Lion?

April 8, 2025 • 52 mins
The headline sounded like an April Fool’s prank. Then others confirmed it and fans raised the uproar. Here’s why it matters that Aslan is male.
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256. When Have Newer Christian Authors Explored Mars?

April 1, 2025 • 31 mins
From a wheelchair-wielding robo-pioneer to the Ares 10 mission and other astronauts, many faithful storytellers settled on our sister planet.
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255. What Are Space Westerns? | After Moses with Michael F. Kane

March 25, 2025 • 70 mins
After the first age of rocketry, some cowboy heroes traded their six-shooters for rayguns and rode beyond Earth to settle a new genre frontier.
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254. Who Would Win in a Fight Between Spaceships and Dragons? | Embergold with Rachelle Nelson

March 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Fantasy has magical beasts while science fiction has fantastical vehicles, and both have their biblical redemptive qualities. Now, let them fight.
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253. How Do Classic Sci-Fi Novels Explore the Planet Mars?

March 11, 2025 • 66 mins
Earth’s neighbor is a frozen desert, but it has inspired many fantastical stories—from adventures to big ideas, hard science, and human nature.
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252. What if Space Missionaries Fought the Secular State? | Above the Circle of Earth with E. Stephen Burnett

March 4, 2025 • 67 mins
Stephen and Zack explore the Christian heroes, challenging ideas, and speculative science of this possible future when oversheltered believers resist a one-world CAUSE.
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251. Could a Cultural ‘Vibe Shift’ Advance Christian-Made Fiction?

February 25, 2025 • 83 mins
Storytellers who hope for gospel witness to the world must discern today's rising audience of cultural conservatives who like some biblical ideas.
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250. How Does Scripture Reveal the God of Story? | with Daniel Schwabauer

February 18, 2025 • 70 mins
When readers treat the Bible as a resource for carving out doctrine-blocks or extracting shiny morals, we miss the Hero and true gospel Story of the Scripture.
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249. What is ‘Romantasy’? | with Parker J. Cole

February 11, 2025 • 79 mins
Though all their friends thought them enemies, fantasy and romance have grown into lovers, and now bear the new ship name of "romantasy."
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248. What Are Fairy-Tale Retellings? | with Kendra E. Ardnek

February 4, 2025 • 60 mins
For centuries readers have loved to re-read, retell, or research the classic stories of magical lands where Christlike good defeats evil.
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