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@happyholly_c @emma-starr @morreafirebird @livgiordano @kate

I love these thoughts!!!

Now you’re really turning the heat up on me because it’s going to be hard to come up with more things you haven’t already come up with, but here are some thoughts.

I think, even with a Christian author, the aliveness of God is largely dependent on the disposition of the author. As Christians, we should always have our eyes fixed on God. This is our highest aim–seeking His face. When we seek to know God, it becomes a spiritual craving and we are propelled forward by questions we cannot answer. I think that when we are sprinting down this journey, God becomes very alive in our writing because of the patterns in which our brains are operating, but if we are contentedly mozying around, I think that makes God seem stagnant. This probably relates to what you were saying about the world not being all black and white, Kate.

I’m also very interested in what you said, @happyholly_c, about violence turning you off because I know exactly what you mean. Now, for me at least, I love action and adventure and don’t think action is necessarily bad in a story. So what is it that sometimes makes violence depressing? Perhaps it is presented in a morally relativist light?

Oh, here’s another one — God feels alive when there is an understanding (implicit or explicit) that Humans possess eternal souls.

Okay, here’s another question for you all: how much do you think the percentage of the cast which is Christian affects the aliveness of God? Can you think of stories with large Christian casts where God wasn’t very alive or stories with no Christians or only a scene or two with a Christian where God felt alive throughout the novel? Regardless, do you think having at least some Christians in your cast is important, and if so why?