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Hello all!

So yesterday at church I had a discussion with someone at church who was questioning the validity of the Fantasy Genre for Christians.  This is a common question, especially among more conservative circles.  We had a really great discussion and so I’ve been thinking about what makes fantasy a special genre.  What it’s strengths and weaknesses are, and how Christians should approach some of it’s murkier waters.

What are y’all’s thoughts?  What are some of your favorite fantasy novels, and how did they enlargen your world in ways that other genres can’t?  What do you see as the strengths of the genre?  What about the weaknesses?  How should theme be approached in a good fantasy novel?  What types of themes are fantasy novels primed to address?

Anyway, just something that’s been bouncing around in my head since yesterday and I thought “Hey, I should bounce this around SE, seeing how there’s a new forum here and all that.”