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Some Christian fiction can make you think...SOME...not that romance stuff though, I do agree that that is a wasted genre and wasted paper.

For instance, Francine River's book "The Atonement Child" is awesome...it's about a girl who is being pressured to have an abortion and the church tells her it is ok because the child is a result of rape. She comes to find out that her mother had an abortion and her grandmother had an abortion and that's why they are pressuring her to have one. She decides to keep the baby regardless. It's a story that forces you to think about abortion and it's consequences, and to also think about the advice you give others.

Be back later...Jebediah wants his mama.


Francine Rivers has written some good ones. I like The Sin Eater the best. It is based on actual beliefs brought to the Appalachian area from Wales. The movie was okay, but the book was much better (as usual! :Green ) Her Mark of the Lion series is pretty good, too (well, the first two - the third one is kinda so-so).
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Some Christian fiction can make you think...SOME...not that romance stuff though, I do agree that that is a wasted genre and wasted paper.

For instance, Francine River's book "The Atonement Child" is awesome...it's about a girl who is being pressured to have an abortion and the church tells her it is ok because the child is a result of rape. She comes to find out that her mother had an abortion and her grandmother had an abortion and that's why they are pressuring her to have one. She decides to keep the baby regardless. It's a story that forces you to think about abortion and it's consequences, and to also think about the advice you give others.

Be back later...Jebediah wants his mama.


I didn't say all Christian Fiction was bad...just MOST. There are always exceptions to the rule...most of them are poorly written, with loose plots, and have unclear thought processes. Now if a good author wrote a Christian Fiction I might read it. I am a very picky reader, but I have read the best BOOK that was ever written so I compare all literature to it. There will never be a book like it ever, but Christians could at least try to write at a higher standard since technically it is being done for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amen to this, and this is the reason that most of the Christian fiction genre makes me angry. I am glad for the well-written ones, but there are some authors who make me shudder just at the mention of their names!!! I remember one author who had a series of 4 books called "Second Chances." I work in a library, and at that time was helping order books, so I read them...the second chance was that the author used to write for Harlequin and now she was giving her writing to the Lord - so she got the rights back to this series, and "re-wrote" it. Basically throwing in a little of God (very little)...the rest was pretty much the same. It sickened me, but that's what a lot of them are (most especially the romance).
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Amen to this, and this is the reason that most of the Christian fiction genre makes me angry. I am glad for the well-written ones, but there are some authors who make me shudder just at the mention of their names!!! I remember one author who had a series of 4 books called "Second Chances." I work in a library, and at that time was helping order books, so I read them...the second chance was that the author used to write for Harlequin and now she was giving her writing to the Lord - so she got the rights back to this series, and "re-wrote" it. Basically throwing in a little of God (very little)...the rest was pretty much the same. It sickened me, but that's what a lot of them are (most especially the romance).


I know exactly which one you are talking about. The thing that gets me is when all these ladies at church go on about how men at church are involved in pornography...then read these nasty novels which are mostly filth.
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I'm with you Kayla...I'm all for higher standards in "Christian" fiction since the authors OUGHT to be doing it for the Lord but most are just doing it for their bank accounts. I think that's why a lot of it is so secular with a few "Jesus loves me's" thrown in.

One quality one I have read lately is "The Lights of Tenth Street" by Shaunti Feldhahn. It was so good I have ordered her other work of fiction called "The Veritas Conflict". They are about spiritual battles in everyday life (plus some suspense with a terrorism plot as well in "The Lights of Tenth Street". She's definetly up on her current affairs).

HappyChristian, I too enjoyed "The Last Sin-Eater" and appreciated how "real" it was.

Larry Burkett's fiction books are awesome also...

I would read stuff like "Left Behind" if they weren't so theologically incorrect...I don't touch those books or movies but still it is the stuff like that that I would read, had it been accurate or even MOSTLY accurate.

I'm working on writing a longer piece of Christian fiction than I have in the past...still working out the plot lines though.

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I don't read very much fiction anymore. There is so much true stuff out there I want to know and so much biblical material I want to saturate myself in, that I rarely take time to read fiction anymore.

Some years ago I read a "Christian romance novel" and a "Christian western" just to see what all the fuss was about. The "Christian romance novel" seemed like a somewhat watered down soap opera with very little "Chrisitan" evident at all. The "Christian western" didn't seem that well written but was basically the same as any other cheap western novel minus the cussing many have. Myself, I don't see the good in either.

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I'll have to check into Larry Burkett. Don't recall reading him before. I just looked on our online catalog and guess what I found? For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn. Am checking it out. I've wanted to read it since I read a book in which she was quoted.

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I don't read very much fiction anymore. There is so much true stuff out there I want to know and so much biblical material I want to saturate myself in' date=' that I rarely take time to read fiction anymore. [/quote']

That's where I'm at these days mostly.

Saundi Fieldman is not my favorite...I have reasons...I'd wish not to discuss here.
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A series that I am in the process of reading (as I buy the books) is written by Mrs. Randy Starr from PA. It is a series on women of the Bible and is available here:

http://www.starr-publications.com/

She's a sweetheart of a lady, and IFB, KJB. Good reading that I recommend to any lady. These are, BTW, nonfiction.

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A series that I am in the process of reading (as I buy the books) is written by Mrs. Randy Starr from PA. It is a series on women of the Bible and is available here:

http://www.starr-publications.com/

She's a sweetheart of a lady, and IFB, KJB. Good reading that I recommend to any lady. These are, BTW, nonfiction.


Her book on dress is a book we read for Christian Womanhood class at my school.
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haha ok... I admit... I do read a lot of Christian fiction and Christian romances :eek :ooops I know they are so dumb and don't help my brain at all but I can't help it, I think them. I do mix them up with a ton of books that do make me think. I read a lot of non-fiction, tons of the classics, biographies, history books, social science books, etc. so I think it balances out :duh

I'm afraid to admit it but right now I'm reading "Sweet Blessings" by Jillian Hart :ooops

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Larry Burkett's fiction books are awesome also...

I would read stuff like "Left Behind" if they weren't so theologically incorrect...I don't touch those books or movies but still it is the stuff like that that I would read, had it been accurate or even MOSTLY accurate.


Hm, you will read Burkett's endtimes novels that contradict the Bible over and over, but you have a problem with Lahaye who at least tries to follow the order of endtime events as given in the book of Revelation? :roll The Thor Conspiracy or the second one has the Mark of the beast being instituted only on the United States, and then has the Antichrist being killed. Don't remember THAT in the Bible - where was it from?

P.S. There is much I don't like about Lahaye - but his order of events and general situations are the only ones that have ever even come close to following what the Bible says. Every other endtimes novel I have read just takes a little from the Bible and wings the rest.
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