Is there a topic or issue you’d like to see more of in Christian fiction?
Yes 🙂
Well, this would be a short blog post if the answer was “no”.
I can think of two main things I’d like to see more of in Christian fiction:
1. Genuine Christian Content
It sees that a lot of Christian fiction is fiction written by Christians which features Christian characters. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that. But I would like to see more stories featuring characters dealing with some of the challenges of the Christian life:
- How do we be Christian workers in the secular workplace?
- How do we respond to the hard questions from unbelievers, like “where is God when it hurts”?
- How to we respond to a world that is becoming more anti-Christian?
- How do we deal with people who claim to be Christians but don’t act in a Christ-like manner?
- How do we respond to #MeToo and #ChurchToo and #BLM?
- As Christians, how do we respond to issues like abortion or war or even public health initiatives in a Christian way?
Many of these topics and issues have easy answers, but I want writers to go deeper. Yes, Abortion is bad. What can we do about it? (I suspect the answer is by changing hearts and minds, not by making something against the law.)
I’d also like to see these questions answered from a broad perspective, not just the perspective of North American evangelical churchgoers. There is a whole world out there. We should seek out more than the North American perspective or evangelical perspective.
2. International Fiction
On that note, I’d like to see more international fiction in general—more fiction set outside North America. After all, fiction is a great way to travel and learn about other countries and cultures, so why not do that through fiction?
