Josiah DeGraafJosiah DeGraaf is a literature nerd who loves helping Christian writers impact readers with honest storytelling. As a reader, he loves epic fantasy stories with imaginative worldbuilding. And as a writer, he loves crafting fantasy stories about characters who face the same dilemmas we do when we try to do the right thing. You can download his illustrated short story collection for free to read about ordinary people who need to decide how far they’re willing to go to save lives when they’re gifted with supernatural powers. He works as the program director of the Young Writer’s Workshop and onscreen editor for Lorehaven. He lives in a small river town just north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Emiel is just your average day shapeshifter doing classic hero work and foiling tyrants. Until, that is, he accidentally impersonates an innocent man while stealing from one of those tyrants. As the tyrant’s men try to find the thief, will Emiel be able to save both the innocent man’s life and his own?
Storytelling is hard. Being a Christian storyteller can seem even harder. If we’re striving to live for God’s glory, that needs to include our storytelling. But how explicitly Christian must our writing be to honor God? In this inaugural article, Josiah evaluates the strengths of two approaches to Christian fiction.
