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Stories Are Soul Food

The Future of Christian Fiction | (Ep. 187)

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8787 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The guys welcome Scott Minor of Realm Makers for a cameo on Christian fiction...
  • Meet the Realm Makers conference: A decade or two ago, Christian fiction publishers only wanted Amish romance; but Scott's wife Betty was a Christian fantasy writer... so together they founded Realm Makers!
  • Nate's headlining at Realm Makers in two weeks: So Nate asks Scott about fantasy authors' greatest strength... and their greatest weakness.
  • The guys discuss the future of Christian fiction, including Christian fiction "stars" like Mike Nawrocki (Veggie Tales), Katie Lee (Connie from Odyssey), and S.D. Smith (Green Ember).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.

0:04.1

Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell.

0:07.3

Made a ghost of a king on a row.

0:09.8

Welcome to Sasp.

0:11.1

We're here with a special guest, Mr. Scott Minor, who is the CEO of Realm Makers,

0:18.1

an organization that served Christian authors of fantasy and science fiction

0:21.2

since 2013. Scott is also a musician and actor, and he taught at a classical Christian school

0:28.4

for a good decade as well. So the number of overlap with the things we do here, and he's also been

0:34.1

very into theater, specifically directing children's theater and getting children

0:39.7

to say all the words of Shakespeare in the original language.

0:45.4

And the reason we're having Scott on is because Nate is heading off to speak at the Realm

0:50.8

Maker's conference here this month. And so we thought we'd have Scott on to discuss.

0:57.1

We got a plug. We got a plug. Plug. Plug. Yeah. So anybody within driving distance or flying distance

1:03.2

of Michigan should be there. Yeah, Scott. So do you do you want to kind of give us a quick pitch for

1:08.6

what the Realm Makers conference is? And then we can head into why specifically speculative fiction yeah what is this thing that you do scott

1:15.7

i don't even know we're just being obedient no thank you brian thank you uh Nate for having me

1:22.2

I'm really honored to be on your podcast I don't know if you I don't see too many guests on Sass. Right? I, Doug 10

1:31.0

Maple and your daughters, when Brian's not around, you have your daughters on. Yeah. Yeah, so you're

1:36.5

one. You're very special. Yeah, they're Mount Rushmore. The Mount Rushmore of Sass.

1:42.3

Cool. Well, I mean, Realmakers isers was started by my wife. Becky, she started

1:47.8

writing fantasy because that's what we enjoyed.

1:51.5

We were in college growing up.

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