We are in the age of an end of the earth, unfortunately so many Christendom seem not to take the words of Jesus Christ into serious account when He declared that He is coming back to Judge the Earth! Obviously, many people seem to forget about the matter! History moves inexorably according to the will of the Sovereign God alone. It is God alone who will have the final word-say when all is said and done! God had predicted in advance that He will Judge the world once again, but it is once and for all! Christian writers today falter in their writings because their writings focus in amusing their audience for self-gain [Money]:

Christian-Fiction Books have destroyed our planet! I agree with Andy that most part, in that Christian writers have been lacking in the writing category, especially when it comes to Sunday school curriculum, no biblical references but animals pictures only! What can children learn from animal pictures?

Hell from beneath is excited about you: To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you: All the chief ones of the earth: It has raised up from their thrones! All the Kings of the nations; they all shall speak and say to you: “Have you also become as weak as we?” [Isaiah 55: 10-11]:

Jesus Christ is inevitable! If individuals and humanity are to progress, Jesus Christ is inescapable! Jesus Christ being fully human and fully spiritual, lived on earth thoughtfully, and acted inspired by Divine Truth, by the Sacred Word of God. He acted upon a vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony! You may ignore Him at your own wicked risk! [2 Corinth 5: 10]:

Thanks for your note. I am aware of the ongoing discussion about Rowling and her open confession of belief in God. That does not, as I see it, negate the fact that some of the ideas included in books border on some questionable content. I am not certain that she would own the literary genre’ of “Christian allegory.” C.S. Lewis also did not own the category of “Christian allegory.” In fact, if my memory serves me correctly, he explicitly denied that his work was in the same trajectory of thought as was Bunyan’s, Pilgrim’s Progress, which was openly known as Christian allegory.

Impossible not to read as Christian allegory? I would posit that many people read the section which you mention in ways not associated with Christianity.

The point of the editorial was to clarify and expose the travesty of much of Christian publishing/writing when compared with the writing of someone like Rowling who breaks every “rule” of much modern Christian writing/publishing.

I agree with you about Bruce’s excellent book. Our family has benefitted from it greatly.

http://thehogshead.org/guest-blogger-jk-rowling-a-christian-340/1

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572107/20071017/index.jhtml

Further, I’m not sure how someone could read the series, especially the final book, and not come away with a profound assurance that this is indeed Christian allegory in the same style of CS Lewis. Considering the final chapters of Deathly Hallows as anything else is impossible.

I will agree with Mr. Baker that the quality of writing, both in teaching literature and in fiction, in Christiandom today is horrific. We have sold our theological souls to the big machine of 2 or 3 publishing houses and they have fed us milk not solid food.

Finally, one area mentioned in the article is the catechism as a means for teaching children. I would like to point you toward Bruce Ware’s Big Truths for Young Hearts as a possible cure for the mindlessness of most children’s teaching material in the church. This book does a masterful job of teaching real theology on a child’s level.

Thanks for your comment. Regarding your first point, I am not certain. To be sure, market forces and the sheer requirement of monetary profit can easily steer the editorial ship more than we like to admit. Good writers (especially of good Sunday School curriculum) are often over-looked because their content is deemed too difficult. By God’s grace, that is changing with many publishing houses.

As to your second idea about the quality of Christian writing, your point is well-taken. Tolkien and Lewis do employ the use of creatures and ideas which may not neatly fit into our categories. Fiction is very difficult to write. As you have ably shown, few authors do it well. Christian fiction is often not written well. The great need of the hour is for good writing to once again dominate the evangelical scene in ways which does not sequester us behind our own fortresses or categories. We need people who can venture into the mainstream media and compete in the marketplace of ideas where skill truly matters. In that arena, the nuances which you mention will make all the difference in winning readers – even (and perhaps especially) those who are not Christians.