What Makes a Book.Christian?

 This comes from a part of a thread of a Twitter feed, in which someone asked what made a book Christian.  This is my response.

  • Nature is glorious and dangerous.  Nature is not a god or gods.
  • Humans are created in the image of their Creator.  
  • Humans have a great deal of good and evil.  
  • The world is built on natural laws.  
  • There are moral absolutes.  
  • There are sin and redemption.  
  • There is a need for a sacrifice. 
  • Forgiveness and restoration are possible. 
  • God, the creator is in control.
  • God will make all things new.


Then you can add:

  • Clean vocabulary 
  • Limited violence and 
  • Christian values and practices as the publisher desire them.  


But it's better to just write good stories

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