While Romance is often relegated to the shallow end of the storytelling pool, it is actually one of the easiest genres for Christian storytellers to incorporate good, Godly, and even theologically deep messages.

Contemporary Fiction is delineated by its similarity to the current world, be that in character archetypes, worldbuilding, or plot.

To steal from biological taxonomy, under the domain of fiction are the two widely accepted kingdoms: Realistic and Speculative, both of which will be covered briefly in this article.

For those that are new, Theology of Storytelling is the Brainy Blog’s deep dive into how to tell Christian stories. Everything from overt and covert messaging, character archetypes, literary devices, symbolism, to deeper questions including “does all Christian fiction have to be kid-friendly?” and “are Christian stories even necessary?”. All these are covered in Theology of Storytelling!