#Christian Science Fiction

[greater-than-the-sword]

OPENING STRONG AT #94TH PLACE IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FICTION THATS TOP 100 woo hoo can we push it up to the top 10?? Hope to get some more Amazon reviews in!!

[jambandatl]

Acts Chapter 15- (Paul)

Yep, gonna finish this soon… As always, God bless, James Arthur Ferguson

[protagonistspub]

MarkMaker by Mary Jessica Woods

MarkMaker by Mary Jessica Woods is Catholic science fiction. It is published by Chrism Press and this is her debut novel. I finished this book more than two weeks ago now and I still don’t know how to review it. Just to be clear, before this turns into a rambling review, I enjoyed this book very much. It makes you think. What it makes you think is something I am still attempting to…

[rjalker]

you can still have gender in a species that's monoecious, reproduces asexually, or even is just physically incapable of the normal means of reproduction, you people are just fucking obsessed with biological essentialism and the white supremacist ideal of gender.

[this-is-cool]

The sleek futuristic sci-fi creations of Christian Grajewski - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-sleek-futuristic-sci-fi-creations-of-christian-grajewski/

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale as John Preston in Equilibrium (2002) dir. Kurt Wimmer

[jcalexandrewrites]

If the Bible is a light unto my path, and the Bible is the sword of the spirit...is the Bible a lightsaber? 🤔

from Introverted Christian Memes on Facebook

[theromanticrationalist]

Walking with God: The Sacred Journey of Villeneuve’s Dune | The Heretical Sayyadina

"This is Paul’s path, this is Paul’s story, of what it means to walk with the Divine. Many are tempted to view this story as a curse, something that destroys not only the person walking the path, but the entire world around him. We may even be tempted to think that we are watching not a story of a man, but of a terrible and wretched god who will fall from grace — falling short of everyone’s expectations and self-made projections of him, a messiah made in a broken image who will not lead them into a better world, but a nightmarish one filled with the stench of violence and death. Only this is not Villeneuve’s Dune. We aren’t watching a fall from grace, but a fall towards grace. For we seem to be taking Paul’s godhood for granted, as something that can be torn down and defiled, yet we must remember that it is a part of him, something that is woven into his very genes. You can’t remove the man from the Divine, and you can’t remove the Divine from the man. And although it is true that the man will not be able to live up to the Divine, this is not to his shame, but to his glory. For it is a beautiful thing that a man is not God. When he realizes this, he becomes truly free. Not because he is free from God, but because he is freed to God. So, this isn’t about a collapse of Divinity within a man, but it is about a man collapsing into Divinity — because sometimes the path to heaven leads into the desert. When you walk with the Divine, wrestling with Him along the way, you are going to be made lame, but you will be given a new name. This is Paul’s story." | 💧 Continue Reading on my Substack.

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[apenitentialprayer]

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

attributed to Nikita Khrushchev.

Sed contra,

Looking for God —or Heaven— by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play. But he is never present in the same way as Falstaff or Lady Macbeth. Nor is he diffused through the play like a gas. [… We], in varying degrees according to our perceptiveness, have 'found Shakespeare' in the plays. […] Now of course this is only an analogy. I am not suggesting at all that the existence of God is as easily established as the existence of Shakespeare. My point is that, if God does exist, He is related to the universe more as an author is related to a play than as one object in the universe is related to another. If God created the universe, He created space-time, which is to the universe as the metre is to a poem or the key is to music. To look for Him as one item within the framework which He Himself invented is nonsensical. If God —such a God as any adult religion believes in— exists, mere movement in space will never bring you any nearer to Him or any farther from Him than you are at this very moment. You can neither reach nor avoid Him by travelling to Alpha Centauri or even to other galaxies. A fish is no more, and no less, in the sea after it has sum a thousand miles than it was when it set out.

C.S. Lewis, "The Seeing Eye"

Galactic Manoeuvre, by Nikolai Nedbailo

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Atlantis

Rating: PG

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Cree Summer, James Garner, Claudia Christian, Phil Morris, Leonard Nimoy, John Mahoney, Corey Burton, Don Novello, Jacqueline Obradors, Florence Stanley, David Ogden Stiers, Natalie Strom, Jim Varney, Jim Cummings, Patrick Pinney

Release year: 2001

Genres: science fiction, adventure

Blurb: The world's most highly-qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers is led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible thousand-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea. The underwater expedition takes an unexpected turn when the team's mission must switch from exploring Atlantis to protecting it.

[jambandatl]

Red the Healer and the Dawn of Aussieville- Chapter Two- Shadows and Alliances

Dreamland Adventures The dawn of a new cycle in Aussieville brought with it a crisp, refreshing air, signaling the beginning of new hope. As the first light of the sun touched the fertile lands they had cultivated, it cast long shadows that seemed to dance with a life of their own. It was in these shadows that the latent threat of the Creatures of Night (CON) lurked, a constant reminder of the…

[protagonistspub]

Aberration by Cathy McCrumb

A Aberration by Cathy McCrumb is book two in the Children of the Consortium series. It is Christian Science Fiction and I purchased the hard cover even though my books won’t match. The novel opens with our intrepid heroine, Recorder, on a new ship in isolation awaiting judgment from The Eldest when the ship eventually arrives at its destination. Something goes horribly wrong on board and the…

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗)

𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐭

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[roskirambles]

(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Atlantis The Lost Empire (2001)

Originally posted: January 7th, 2022 Ah, the Disney Renaissance. Their musicals absolutely dominated the 90's, but from Pocahontas(1995) to Tarzan(1999), their box office returns started to go down. So, the house of the mouse decided to try and shift gears, and took a gamble greenlighting some rather odball movies. None of them paid off, but this ended up giving us one of my childhood favorites and frankly an underrated film that, while flawed, still makes for a very interesting experiment.

Distancing itself from it's predecessors, this movie isn't a musical which presents a refreshing change of pace. Songs wouldn't fit in this film anyways, with it's darker tone, heavy action focus and even violent imagery. The body count is shockingly high for a Disney animated feature, and unlike a film like Mulan a lot of them happen on screen.

So, yeah, the film is more violent. And scarier too(Rourke's death is quite gruesome). It's also more visually interesting in some ways. With character designs from creator of the Hellboy comics Mike Mignola, the art direction has an edge to it that complements the action set pieces and adventurous narrative. The city of Atlantis, while decadent, is breathtaking.

What about the characters though? Well, they're really fun! While not having the most deep story arcs, all have a very strong charisma and bounce off each other humorously (my personal favorite is Vinny). Protagonist Milo may be the most plain of the bunch but he's still a likable dork. As out of focus as it is, his relationship with Kida is also charming, both of them understanding the importance of cultural exchange.

And that's the deal. This film is closer to Raider's of the Lost Ark than Beauty and the Beast. It's a death defying adventure with just enough plot and characterization to justify the action. There's still some compelling drama here, but the focus isn't the romance or the self discovery. It's the crazy, cool journey.