The Blood Miles: Chapter 8
Chris meets paramilitaries at Wicket Gap and gets shot in the encounter. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com. To hear other chapters as they come out, sign up below. Episodes released twice a week. See other episodes here.
The Blood Miles: Chapter 7
A night-time intruder leaves Chris some unexpected presents. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com. To hear other chapters as they come out, sign up below. Episodes released twice a week. See other episodes here.
The Blood Miles: Chapter 6
Chris has trouble in the plains and even more trouble the mountains. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com.
The Blood Miles: Chapter 5
Chris helps the Ockhamists with their research and begins to read the Roadbook. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com.
The Blood Miles: Chapter 4
Chris makes an unexpected detour to university. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com.
Spooky Stories and the Lord of Halloween
I like a spooky story. Maybe I shouldn’t. Maybe it’s unhealthy. Maybe I should be more reformed and less medieval—more Zwingli and less Luther, as Carl Trueman would put it. I know there are definite dangers in thinking too much about spooky things—of drifting into a superstitious mindset where intermediate powers control the ups and downs of life. I know that I am not immune to that temptation, and I know the antidote (see more here). I like the idea that there is a hidden world that still reveals itself. I’m also unsure of how many of the stories one hears are genuine. I have had a few strange things…
The Blood Miles: Chapter 3
Following a confrontation with the Mayor, Chris leaves Spillan with a friend … and immediately runs into trouble. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com.
The Blood Miles: Chapter 2
Chris meets an Agent from the Central Government and hears some disturbing things about the plague, his town, and about himself. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com.
The Blood Miles: Chapter 1
We meet Chris Walker, occasional gravedigger and town sniper as he defends the fortress town of Spillan from wasteland marauders. This excerpt from The Blood Miles is provided by Brightmettle Audio. To find out more about the book, visit thebloodmiles.com.
Narnia Must Die – Tough Questions for Christian Writers
A few weeks ago, I shared some of my thoughts about the possibilities of Christian fiction: whether it should exist; what it might achieve. I ended on a fairly upbeat note. Stories might refresh our jaded palettes to see what’s true; stories might take us by surprise and sneak past our prejudices and certainties. But there is one important problem that I passed over. The more stories succeed, the greater the danger that we might mistake them for the realities to which they point. We might want to live in made-up worlds rather than turn our eyes to heaven. We might want to keep reading romance rather than live a…