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Faith in Fiction Post Script: No Time to S’plain, Let Me Sum Up

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

We’ve covered a lot of territory in this series of blogs. This week, I’d like to sum up by revisiting some ideas that seem, to me, critical to writing a fictional religion or writing fictionally about a real religion that … Continue reading →


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Faith in Fiction 11: Religious Common Ground
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Posted on October 31, 2012 by
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As you go about creating a faith for your fictional world or portraying an existing faith the question may arise as to how unique a particular faith is as a feature of the culture(s) you’re positing. If you’re aiming to … Continue reading →


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Faith in Fiction 6: Faith-Bashing versus Realism

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

This is the question that came up at an online Catholic writer’s convention several years ago: Can you write positively or neutrally about other religious beliefs without betraying your own? This is a real fear among some writers with strong … Continue reading →


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Faith in Fiction 5: Real Religions in Fiction

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

I did a Q & A a while back for an online writer’s conference on writing faith for fiction. The participants asked a panel of writers questions about how we handled the subject. Over the next several blogs, I thought … Continue reading →


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Faith in Fiction 4: Writing Belief Systems
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Posted on May 16, 2012 by
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Neutrality, Ambiguity, Humor, and Affection An aspiring writer once asked me how he might write about religion “safely.” He had collected an array of anecdotes and stories from his business dealings but was afraid that if he fictionalized them, he’d … Continue reading →


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Faith in Fiction 3: Writing Belief Systems

Posted on May 9, 2012 by
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The Straw Religion A Straw Man is an imaginary construct that embodies everything the writer doesn’t like about something, someone, or some group. By nature, it requires gross a generalization that attaches the particular to a whole. In the context … Continue reading →


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Faith in Fiction 1: Writing Belief Systems

Posted on April 25, 2012 by
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I deal with religion, magic, faith, or some sort of spiritual belief system in most of my books and quite a few of my short stories. If not the main thread, these form at least a subtle part of the … Continue reading →


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Holidays, Holy Days, and Faith

Posted on April 13, 2009 by

A calendar in the sacristy of St. Raphael’s has an Episcopalian-flavored cartoon for each month. In the first panel of April’s cartoon, a priest is shown with arms outspread, saying “Christ is alive!” The second panel shows him sprawled on … Continue reading →


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