CHRISTIAN LIT / historical fiction

This doesn't seem a very busy corner! Is anyone else in this boat? My novel is set in medieval Norway and revolves around a church, from its building to its abandonment at the Black Death. Anyone else?

Yes the pic is a stavechurch, in case anyone wondered!

I'm a Christian writing about the exodus from Egypt. So I guess that would make it a Jewish novel. :)

Um, sort of. I actually classify mine as historical horror, set in eastern Europe around 1610. However, my MC is a middle-aged nun, a descendant of one of history's frightening figures. And she will be a woman of faith at the beginning and at the end of the story.

Yes! A historical romance set in 1866 East Tennessee...in the Great Smoky Mountains.

I feel like I keep typing this in forums. Sorry if I'm boring but I am excited about my little book....well...here's hoping it will be a book someday!

Mine is steampunk, which is science fiction set in the past, with a lot of great mechanical devices which didn't really exist at the time but might have--- something like the movies League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Wild Wild West (which ended with them riding off into the sunset on a giant mechanical spider...)

Mine's set in the year 1870, and involves sideshow freaks (although for Christian fiction I don't use the word 'freaks' or, for that matter, 'sideshow') and clockwork robots. The main character's friend invents an airship (like a dirigible) and the Villain wants to get hold of it--- and only the main character knows that the ultra-respectable Villain has a wicked past.....

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I'm writing in 13th century Italy, a young woman grappling with faith in the struggle between the rise of the Pope and the political powers that be.

Only just found this thread! I am writing fantasy meets church history. The basic plot is someone ends up in fantasy world with fairies, trolls etc, and has to deal with lots of challenges. To help her work out what to do, she meets someone from church history who teaches her something. So far she's med Saint Alban and Saint Aidan, and is just about to meet Bonhoeffer!! It's turning in to a bit of a nightmare as each chapter is therefore set in a different time period so has to be research seperately!!

I have no clue on spelling and grammer (i have dyslexia) please be nice to me, when/ if you point out mistakes!

Faith, your idea is crazy and wonderful! Sounds like a lot of fun. Are you going alphabetical (Alban, Aidan, Bonhoeffer)? The different time periods sound like fun. Though I imagine the research is tough.

For mine I'm trying to figure out what interesting historical persons were alive in 1870 and could be thrown in to my novel. I found out the famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker didn't die until 1874 so they are a possibility.

2009 - The Aether Key: Christian steampunk
2005 - Viridians: Alien invasion story (didn't win)
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I have no clue on spelling and grammer (i have dyslexia) please be nice to me, when/ if you point out mistakes!

Hi there. Actually, it looks as if there are a good bunch of us!

I am writing the story of the spreading of the gospel through the eyes of a woman mentioned only once in the New Testament. I am trying to solve an actual mystery by facts and fiction. We know that the Shroud of Turin showed up in Edessa in 525 after a flood. Supposing that it is the genuine article, where was it for 500 years? How did it get from Jerusalem to Edessa? There are two references - one for the Shroud of Turin, and one for the Cloth of Edessa. Are they the same cloth with two names, or is it one cloth?

When Peter went to the empty tomb, there was the burial cloth, and laying seperately, the face cloth or napkin, lying neatly folded. In my story, the second cloth has been found, and can place itself and the shroud in the tomb of Christ.

What happens to the world when there is 1) Physical, 2) Forensic, 3) Historic, and 4) Scientific proof that a man named Jesus Christ was actually buried in that tomb, and that when He left, it was by supernatural means?

That's where I am.

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Well, secular society seems pretty good at explaining things away. For example, at Fatima in 1917 three shepherd children who were seeing visions of the Virgin Mary were told that there would be a miracle in October that all would see. On the appointed date vast crowds of people arrived--- many of them socialists (Portugal was socialist at the time) who came to mock. Vast numbers of people witnessed the 'Dance of the Sun' in which it looked like the sun was dancing around and then crashing to Earth--- including many of the mockers, and some who were in neighboring towns. Yet it is often explained away as mass hysteria among a crowd of ignorant religious peasants--- in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

So I don't think that ANY amount of hard evidence would win over the whole skeptical and scientific communities--- there will always be some who will feel they have to throw out something/ANYTHING to cast doubt on it.

2009 - The Aether Key: Christian steampunk
2005 - Viridians: Alien invasion story (didn't win)
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occupation: crazy cat lady