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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 69. How Can Faithful Stories Best Show Backslidden Heroes?
Description: Christians talk a lot about “backsliding,” that is, doubts or struggles with our faith. Often the stories we share reflect characters who do the same. But how can Christian-made stories best explore this challenge, moving past cliches and shallow pictures of “backsliders” and showing more realistic images of people who fall back from faith but find restoration in Jesus?
Concession stand
We’ve already talked about “deconstructing” (episode 10). This isn’t that.
We’ll also tread lightly on the challenge of whether Christians can “fall away.”
Some of this overlaps with tropey fiction evangelism, worth its own episode.
We’ll cri...